The invasive Asian swamp eel is threatening the Florida Everglades by disrupting the food web. This predatory fish has caused an 80% loss of the prey base for wading birds in some areas. Likely ...

A contracted hunter working deep in Florida’s swamps has helped capture one of the largest Burmese pythons ever recorded in ...

Note: The following contains excerpts from a Sept. 9, 2016, article in The News-Press entitled “History of flushing Lake Okeechobee dates back to 1800s” by Cynthia A. Williams. From Lake Okeechobee to ...

By the time he reached high school, Mike Duever was riding his bicycle 60 miles one-way to get to preserves, where he could catch pygmy rattlesnakes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida International University researchers have documented the arrival -- and takeover -- of the asian swamp eel in Florida's ...

Members of the Miccosukee Tribe and longtime Everglades residents are speaking out against Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility that they said threatens the land, water and cultural heritage of ...