How were the first morph ball pythons produced?

[Maddumpling]

Pie bald, albino, pastel, etc. Like when people say that this person produced the first morph ball python, do they mean they found that morph and produced it or they were just breeding and they produced it by accident.

[purplemuffin]

They found it

These are genetic mutations found in snakes. Just like how there are albino crocodiles, peacocks, people, fish, whatever. Someone imported a ball python that looked "different"..Bred it out..and discovered that it was genetic!

[Kinra]

I believe all the combo morphs (super pastels, bumble bees, lesser bees, ect...) were produced by breeders, but all of the base morphs (pastel, spider, pin, ect...) were imported by the big breeders who paid top dollar hoping what they found would prove to be genetic.

[Alexandra V]

All of the base morphs (single gene mutations, like spider, albino, pastel, etc) were discovered through imports. People either went and found interesting colored ones and proved them out to be genetic like purplemuffin said. So every single gene morph came from nature.

Then as Kinra said, the combo or "designer" morphs are from breeders breeding two different mutated snakes together and such. That is not to say that it isn't possible that combo morphs have happened in the wild, but the chances of that are pretty slim.