While patrolling Coney Island, an environmental police officer came across a man flexibly handling two snakes. The larger ...

A Facebook post by the state Department of Environmental Conservation on Friday shows two of its environmental conservation (ECO) police officers suspending between them the massive, 12-foot-long ...

A crowd gathered around the man and his massive snake, but an environmental conservation police officer quickly stepped in.

A man who drew a crowd of about a dozen people, including some small children, with the python near the Riegelmann Boardwalk last month has been ticketed for illegally possessing the snake, state ...

A Burmese python was confiscated near the Coney Island boardwalk in July, New York state officials say.

A man was showing off a Burmese python to a crowd that included small children at Coney Island when an environmental police ...

The incident happened July 12 near the Riegelmann Boardwalk, according to the New York State Department of Environmental ...

Officers believe the snake was abandoned by its owner after growing too large to care for ...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in Florida's Everglades, have caused severe declines in native wildlife over the past ...

Tom Rahill captured 96 Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park in just 10 days, but his real mission involved a veteran and a 17-foot snake.