Designated as a Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park, this spot attracts serious astronomers and casual stargazers from across the country who set up telescopes in the designated Night Sky Public ...

A nightmarish eel is invading the Everglades and gobbling up native crayfish, a keystone species that is oblivious to the ...

After following all of the official rules and regulations, Freddy and Mike dressed to kill—in their knee-high snake boots, ...

Attention Florida-bound retirees: There's more to the Sunshine State than Disney, golf and beaches.

In chest-deep waters on midnight airboat runs and along remote Everglades roads, women scientists are carrying out some of Florida’s most demanding conservati ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the ...

Finding a Burmese python in your swimming pool is not a planned event — and this video captures exactly that, with the moment of discovery, the immediate scramble to get the snake out, and the full ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Jackson is dwarfed by the 202-pound python, which is now the second-heaviest ever caught in the wild in Florida. Some ...

From the most iconic national park to the newest national monument, much of America’s 640 million acres of public land is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida conducted an environmental study of the Alligator Alcatraz site months ago that largely determined there weren't ...

Rumors that a man in the state of Florida was arrested after trying to "baptize" an alligator in a Waffle House restaurant circulated online in mid-February 2026. There was no evidence that the claim ...