A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the island’s prehistoric ecosystem. The bone belongs to a giant python that ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

What makes an animal invasive, and which species are causing the most destruction across North America? A species is ...

Unlike the green iguanas that have become a familiar, if unwelcome, sight in the region, Nile monitors are aggressive predators. They feed on turtles, snakes, young crocodiles and other reptiles, ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

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

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

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

The record-breaking arctic blast that hit Florida earlier this month may have sent humans scurrying for winter coats, but it sent wildlife scurrying, swimming and slithering for their lives. Some of ...

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 ...