In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a heavy weight on her chest, only to find that it was an 8ft-long python.

Lady Gaga, the albino carpet python from Australia’s Territory Wildlife Park, is retiring after 17 years as an educational ...

Meet Lady Gaga, the albino carpet python celebrity whose retirement reveals what “aging gracefully” means for snakes.

Rachel Bloor had assumed the heavy weight on her chest was her dog.

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 ...

Ms Rachel Bloor initially thought it was her labradoodle when she felt a heavy weight on her chest and stomach. Read more at ...

A snake has completed an extraordinary interstate journey from Queensland to the Central Coast, after hitching an eight-hour ride beneath a family car before being rescued at the Australian Reptile ...

Authorities in Queensland, Australia, are investigating a possible animal-cruelty case after reviewing footage that showed children skipping rope with a python. The video appears to have been deleted, ...