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

“On July 12, [Officer] Maynard observed a large snake near Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island with a crowd of about a dozen ...

Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. These massive constrictor snakes hail from Southeast Asia, but decades of the exotic pet trade brought them stateside. A key moment in their spread came in ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Burmese pythons, the giant constrictors that have devastated wildlife in the Florida Everglades, are turning up well outside their long-established range and appear to be settling into new parts of ...