NAGOYA -- A carpet python that went missing at a zoo here in January has returned -- and is now more than double its original size. A worker at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya's ...

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.

Murray-Darling carpet python populations in South Australia have declined due to loss of habitat and predation. Trials using conservation detection dogs to find the snakes in the Riverland have so far ...