The Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, is a refuge for some truly extraordinary animals.

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

Snakes are often portrayed as aggressive, but almost all snakes retreat at the sight of humans. They'll only attack if ...

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

More than half of Florida - 35 counties - are under burn bans as drought conditions worsen. All five water management districts in the state are urging residents to conserve water and limit lawn ...

Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous water snake in North America. Read on ...

Florida is battling 134 wildfires across 18,640 acres, fueled by severe drought. Here's a list of 34 counties under burn bans. Water management districts across Florida are urging residents to begin ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

As Florida's months-long drought persists, the Northwest Florida Water Management District issued a water shortage warning, asking Panhandle and Big Bend residents to think ahead and use their water ...

Water agencies in Florida and across the United States are navigating a complex, rapidly evolving regulatory environment, and costly mitigation mandates surrounding per‑ and polyfluoroalkyl substances ...