Authorities intercepted hundreds of snake and turtle skins intended for the wildlife trade, including 445 python skins, at a ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the ...

Nile monitors are spreading through canals, stressing native nests. Florida expands removal rules and urges fast sighting ...

When zebra mussels invaded the United States, nobody realized how financially or ecologically damaging these minute mollusks ...

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. Burmese pythons have unraveled food webs for decades. Green iguanas damage landscapes and infrastructure. But now, as non-native species of apple ...

A new study reveals that cannibalism in snakes is not just rare behavior but an evolving strategy for survival, shaped by ...

A rare Florida cold front stunned and killed thousands of invasive iguanas, but wildlife experts warn the population is likely to rebound due to their high reproductive rate.

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

A professional python hunter in Florida needed assistance from family members to uncoil a giant Burmese python from his body and to ultimately subdue the second-heaviest python ever caught in Florida.

Florida’s wild landscape has always been home to some remarkable creatures, but nothing quite prepared wildlife officials for what they discovered in December 2022. Deep in the Everglades, a team of ...