Tommy Desjardins, 16, had a small snake in a container. “He’s a normal ball python,” he said, meaning his snake wasn’t genetically tricked out like the $100,000 variety. But it fit in his ...

Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for more than 15 years. Mark Wanner, manager of herpetology ...