Ball pythons usually have an ivory belly and patterned scales. ... To identify a ball python, you can look for yellow stripes running from their nostrils to their eyes.

There are a few reptile fanatics that smile when they see snakes, but maybe only one snake that can smile right back at you … three times.

The 1.5m carpet python had been discovered slithering in a garden with a huge lump in the middle of ... X-rays soon revealed that the massive bulge in its belly was due to swallowing a tennis ball.