While patrolling Coney Island, an environmental police officer came across a man flexibly handling two snakes. The larger specimen was a Burmese python, a species deemed illegal in New York. The ...

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 ...

“On July 12, [Officer] Maynard observed a large snake near Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island with a crowd of about a dozen people, including small children, gathered around it,” the NYSDEC ...

A 2-year-old girl in Florida was killed by an 8-foot, 6-inch Burmese python kept as a pet by her mother and the mother's live ...

Deep in a remote stretch of Everglades National Park, something went horribly wrong for two of Florida's toughest animals.

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT The toddler was strangled to death by an 8ft pet Burmese python which belonged to her mum and her boyfriend.

A population that may now exceed 500,000 Burmese pythons began with just hundreds of escaped and released snakes, including ...

Asian swamp eels, mucus-covered air-breathing fish that implode marshland food chains from the bottom up, have earned a nasty ...

These are two of the most notorious creatures in Florida... a heavyweight battle for the ages. If you spend enough time ...

Christopher Cook is accused of kicking his 15-year-old dog after it urinated in his Stafford home, killing it with his work ...

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