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. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

A venomous bite is terrifying — but being swallowed whole is something else entirely. Pythons don’t just kill their prey, they consume it in ways that defy belief. This video reveals how far their ...

This is the heartwarming moment a group of fishermen rescued a python that was stranded in the open sea. Boat captain Thanakorn Manyuen, 29, and his colleagues spotted the 13ft (4m) reticulated python ...

The St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida, was named the most alligator-infested river in the state, according to A-Z ...

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

As expected, green iguanas living in Southwest Florida froze and fell to the ground in many places early Sunday morning (Feb. 1). Temperatures plummeted into the low 30's as far south as Naples and ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued widespread extreme cold watches and warnings across Florida ahead of an arctic blast set to plunge temperatures in the state. Although most Floridians ...

An invasive python in South Florida. As temperatures drop, experts explain how cold weather affects reptiles — and why pythons can still survive freezes that don’t last long. MyFWC Florida Fish and ...

On a recent afternoon, Carl Jackson and his family were hunting for pythons on a dirt road about 30 miles east of Naples in Big Cypress National Preserve. Jackson said he turned his truck around to ...