Most people don’t expect a snake to have a public career or a retirement plan. Yet Lady Gaga, an albino carpet python living at Territory Wildlife Park near Darwin, has done both. For nearly two ...

Meet Lady Gaga, the albino carpet python celebrity whose retirement reveals what “aging gracefully” means for snakes.

To the surprise of Dylan Wallis, Head of Reptiles at the Australian Reptile Park, the snake was a coastal carpet python, a snake typically found throughout Queensland and far northern NSW. Anthony, ...