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, ...

A carpet python, photographed at Perth Zoo. From this angle, you can clearly see the heat-seeking pits on the lower jaw. The python uses these to detect the body heat of its warm-blooded prey.

A wrangler was “genuinely shocked” after finding “one of the biggest carpet pythons I’ve caught in years” under a wheelie bin. Stu from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers warned people to be careful of the ...

A COASTAL carpet python has stunned staff and students as it devoured a hare outside their classrooms. Warning: graphic images Snake catcher Bryce Lockett told a TV channel that he received a call ...

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 ...

A picture of a carpet python eating a pet cat north of Brisbane has emerged as a Queensland snake catcher weighs in on the owner’s heartbreaking decision to let the meal continue. A renowned snake ...

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