An 8-foot python is blamed for starting a Virginia school fire, but a teacher says the snake didn't do it.

Authorities blamed Nanner for knocking over a heat fixture, but Brittany Jacobs contends it was trying to escape blaze

Amy Siewe (far right) hunts by night in the summer, and is hoping one day to catch a legendary 20-footer (Credit: Amy Siewe) When invasive snakes began killing the Everglades' native wildlife, Florida came up with a plan: bring in bounty hunters.

An eight-foot Burmese python was pulled from beneath a Freehold backyard shed, and an X-ray revealed it had just swallowed an opossum. How the Monmouth County SPCA got it out.