An amateur snake collector is recovering in a Washington, DC hospital after he bought the snake for $100 from a neighbor under the belief that it was a python.

A two-year old Florida girl was killed Wednesday night when a snake owned by a man at the house broke out of its aquarium and strangled her to death.

A Florida family’s pet Burmese python strangled their two-year-old daughter in her sleep.

A python has strangled a 2-year-old girl to death in Sumter County, Florida, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

Snakes on a plane! No kidding! Four baby pythons escaped on a passenger plane in Australia.