As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

However, the reticulated python is especially impressive, with many individuals reaching up to 20 feet long and weighing more than 150 pounds. It’s actually one of the heaviest snakes on the planet!

A Reticulated Python is a strong swimmer, a skilled climber, and yes, one of the few snakes known to have consumed humans. The name comes from its net-like skin pattern.

The reticulated python – known locally as Golbahar – is vanishing fast as habitat loss, poaching and trafficking push the species to the brink ...

A 15-foot Reticulated Python that had been alarming residents in a Garland neighborhood was safely captured by animal control officials in early June. (City of Garland, Texas Government via ...

A family of animal lovers teamed up with another local resident in South Carolina to wrangle a 12-foot yellow python that had ...

A 15-foot reticulated python caused panic in a Garland neighborhood by trapping a man on top of his truck before animal control officers safely captured it.

After Downtown Los Angeles residents found something slithering through an apartment complex dumpster, a 20-foot reticulated python was rescued by a local, self-proclaimed "reptile hunter," according ...

Self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile Dundee' wrangles 20-foot python on top of LA dumpster The snake was discovered at an apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles.

A 15-foot-long yellow reticulated python that was captured from a Garland neighborhood on May 7. Garland Animal Control Animal control officers in Garland captured a 15-foot-long python from a ...

An animal control officer for Garland captured a 15-foot reticulated python on the loose Friday night. City of Garland The call about the loose snake came in late Friday night in Garland ...