On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

In a pasture behind Charlotte Sports Park, under a cloud-streaked blue sky with a breeze breaking through the warm sun, it’s a perfect day to wrangle a Burmese python. To McKayla Spencer’s right, in ...