“It’s raining monkeys!” an Ocala woman said after dozens of rhesus macaque monkeys jumped from trees into the river they were kayaking.
Gatorama, located on the edge of the Florida Everglades, hosts an annual Hatching Festival where guests can hold a hatching alligator egg.
A python hunter caught 87 invasive Burmese pythons in the wild in South Florida in July as part of a new incentive program.
Bodyworn camera footage shows a deputy using a pool skimmer and his bare hands to pull a gator from a North Florida backyard pool.
Zeus, a German Shepherd, is recovering after being attacked by an alligator and dragged into a pond behind a Pasco County home.
More than 20 tons of Burmese pythons have been removed from Southwest Florida since 2013, scientists said Monday.
A “local gator-wrangling legend” known as the Blue Collar Brawler helped authorities wrestle an alligator along I-95 while barefoot.
“Mile high club” is full of hot air; how a tenant-friendly law helped a “serial squatter”; cops try to crack “egg-flation” case.
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The boys, ages 12 and 14, were recently found in Polk County after one of them had been taken from a St. Pete hospital, police say.
An historic winter storm dropped 10 inches of snow in parts of the Florida Panhandle, NWS said. Frigid temps will continue this week.
Breton, a 13-foot-long great white shark, pinged off Florida’s East Coast multiple times near Daytona Beach in January, OCEARCH data shows.
