The two species have interbred in captivity. While Burmese pythons aren t known to eat people in their native habitat, the African rock python, unfortunately, has been known to do just that.

A genetic study has found that some specimens of the invasive reptile that has decimated local wildlife are a mixture of two Asian species which could make it an even more formidable predator ...

Joseph Wasilewski, Desiree Dov, and Mario Aldecoa with a captured 13-foot Burmese python. Wick Beavers Capt. Jeff Fobb looking at mouth of Northern African Rock python ...

A Burmese python that was captured in Florida's Everglades National Park. Susan Jewell/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Wikimedia Commons In the 1980s, a small number of pet Burmese pythons were ...

A Burmese python is just a docile snake. These things will lunge at you" [ Miami Herald ]. The two species have been known to interbreed in captivity, and that fact has scientists worried about a ...

Teams in Florida were surveying an area for the Northern African pythons (also called African rock pythons) and the Burmese Python in western Miami-Dade County. The teams of snake hunters were ...

In Africa, the rock python eats everything from goats to crocodiles. There have been cases of the snakes killing children. "They are bigger and meaner than the Burmese python.

The rock python is "vicious", according to Kenneth Krysko of the Florida Museum of Natural History. It is even meaner than the Burmese pythons, which have been known to eat alligators, and which ...

Two boys found strangled to death by an African rock python in New Brunswick, Canada, on Monday were victims of one of the world's most vicious snakes.. There are 26 species of pythons, and even ...