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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Brian Wood will cover your face with iguana or Burmese python for $90. Or, if you prefer, alligator — the “diamond” of leather — for $120. The 63-year-old leather artisan was sitting in the living ...

Nairobians at a court’s public gallery were taken aback when police turned up with a filthy polythene bag. The black plastic bag contained python skins. The skins were evidence in a case in which a ...