NEW YORK — Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by French luxury brand Gucci to craft handbags, shoes and belts that sell for hundreds if not ...

Ever admired a snazzy pair of python boots? Snapped open an elegant python-skin clutch? Dreamed of cinching your jeans with a sleek python belt? Zach Hoffman is one of them. A transplant from Boston, ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A Florida shop owner is planning to sell face masks made from the skin of a Burmese Python that may ...

FWC pleads with fashion, commercial fishing and other industries to make use of iguanas for clothes, bait and other uses.

DANIA BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) – Protective facial masks are becoming a fashion statement across the nation during the coronavirus pandemic but because it's Florida, one man is using python skin. Brian ...

A man who caught an 18-foot Burmese python in Florida last week has said trying to escape a bite from the species could "tear the skin right open." Amateur Burmese python hunter Jake Waleri is ...

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