Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...

Nile monitor lizard burrows can rack up millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure such as sidewalks and seawalls.

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

Without official explanation from Padre Island National Seashore, community members are left to speculate about the reasoning behind the volunteer reduction. Congress could be headed for a tipping ...

The V.I. National Park Sea Turtle Program, run by Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, has been cataloging underwater photographs of sea turtles, and a paper on their research has been published ...

The Vallarta mud turtle, the world’s smallest turtle, lives only in temporary lagoons in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, which poses a huge challenge for its conservation. By the time scientists ...

The upcoming seasons of Nickelodeon‘s kids animated series Dora and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be their last. Season 2 of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premieres on Paramount+ in ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

A royal tern was hit by a car in 1968 along the then-new Sanibel Causeway. That single accident led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Southwest Florida's most beloved creatures and the ...