The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A man in Australia recently found a python waiting in his toilet twice in one week. On Oct. 22, Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Queensland received a call to extract a coastal carpet python from a toilet ...

"Oh baby. Don’t move. There is like a 2.5-meter python on you." An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a massive carpet python coiled across her chest after the snake ...

A sleeping woman thought her dog had curled up atop her when feeling some weight, but her husband gave the shocking news with a warning, “Don’t move.” ...

A rare incident in Mysterton, Australia, saw a family lose a pet kitten to an unfortunate encounter with a hungry snake. On March 16, experienced snake handler Jeremy De Haan was called out to the ...

We've all been woken up by the feeling of something crawling over our skin. Maybe it's a fly, or the cat, or just our imagination. But for one boy in Hervey Bay, Australia, a more slippery surprise ...

Most people don’t expect a snake to have a public career or a retirement plan. Yet Lady Gaga, an albino carpet python living at Territory Wildlife Park near Darwin, has done both. For nearly two ...