ACROSS Africa in the evenings children used to gather around the fireplace listening to thrilling stories told by their grandparents. Some of the scary tales would highlight gigantic snakes that ...

The biggest species of snakes are divided into two categories based on scientific research, i.e., the longest and the ...

Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and evolution -- ...

A new regulation in Arkansas that prohibits anyone from breeding, selling or importing any of five large python species without a permit has received backlash from critics who say the state went too ...