Beachgoers encountered quite the surprise after seeing a man walking the Coney Island boardwalk holding a massive snake, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Photo Credit: iStock At a Whidbey Island home, a teenager's glance at the gutter turned up something far stranger than ...

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