What is a ball python snake? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted in Florida? We explain the details.

The Michigan Humane Society is now in possession of a 3-foot-long ball python that was found at a car dealership on Wednesday in Ferndale.

Meet the almost 5-foot-long ball python rescued by Saginaw County animal control officers last week after Saginaw Township residents found it trying to get into their home.

A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

The Animal Control Division of Eastpointe police is trying to determine where a Ball Python came from.

The 8-foot snake was a ball python, not one of the invasive Burmese pythons that are ravaging the Everglades.