An urgent search is underway in the Lincolnshire countryside because police believe an 18-foot python may still be at large.

Officer Donald Aubrey of the Houma Police Department has earned the nickname 'reptile wrangler' Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

The illegal operation was uncovered after an escaped python sparked an investigation that led police to a flat packed with hundreds of snakes hidden inside stacked plastic containers.