WILDLIFE

A man in Florida lost his arm after being attacked by an alligator behind a bar.

A 7-foot alligator certainly enjoyed sunning itself on docks in a Cutler Bay neighborhood — but residents didn’t exactly enjoy its presence.

Three women who worked with famed orca Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium panned Thursday’s announcement that the attraction’s owners plan to return the captive whale to her “home waters” in the Pacific Northwest.

On an early morning in July 2022, deputies said they pulled over Yoankis Hernandez Pena, 38, and Andres Leon Valdes, 45, near Curry Hammock State Park in Marathon and found an injured deer inside their vehicle, on top of a cooler, lawn chairs and other various objects.

The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has recovered sufficiently in Florida and other Southern states that U.S. wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed removing the wading bird from the endangered species list.

Animal observing at a zoo or aquarium are popular activities for many, but some have decided to take it to a new level.

There’s growing concern for an endangered right whale and her calf spotted multiple times off South Florida and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is warning boaters to steer clear.

More than six dozen threatened manatees are currently in rehabilitation centers in Florida and elsewhere amid a chronic starvation problem caused by water pollution, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimated the number of Florida crocodiles have increased to as many as 1,500 to 2,000 adults, coming back from an estimated 300 in 1975.

Residents in Miami Springs are concerned about a recent, unusual series of flamingo sightings that they believe may be coming from nearby Hialeah Park, where a flock of the majestic pink birds has lived since the ‘30s.

They’re invasive, destructive and now apparently responsible for a “large-scale” power outage in one South Florida city.

One of the avian stars of Zoo Miami’s Eagle Cam remained in critical condition Thursday following surgery to repair a severely fractured right wing.

One of the avian stars of Zoo Miami’s Eagle Cam was in critical condition Monday after she was found with a severely broken right wing.

A Florida Keys family made a surprising discovery as they cleaned up seaweed from a boat ramp Hurricane Ian.

Florida’s “puss caterpillars” may look like cute and fuzzy creatures you could just reach out and pet, but scientists are warning people to stay away from them, because their seemingly soft “fur” can actually pack a venomous sting.

It’s the 19th panther death attributed to fatal collisions, out of 21 total deaths this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Zoo Miami welcomed a new giraffe into the herd Tuesday. Sabra, a nearly 12-year-old giraffe, gave birth to a baby girl at around 6:30 p.m., according to Zoo Miami spokesperson Ron Magill.

Many feared for the future of Florida’s three most prominent types of endangered sea turtles — greens, loggers and leatherbacks — but this year evidence suggests they are rebounding.

Veterinarians at Zoo Miami took a close look inside one of the park’s endangered clouded leopards as they tried to get to the bottom of ongoing vomiting issues.

After some storms cleared, Wednesday became a busy day for boaters and divers taking advantage of Florida’s 2-day spiny lobster season.

A 70-year-old woman was stabbed by the bill of a 100-pound sailfish that leapt out of the water and attacked her as her companions were trying to reel it in on a boat near the Florida coast.

A Florida man was hospitalized with serious injuries from an alligator attack on the state’s west coast Wednesday evening.

A python contractor and a Florida wildlife officer hit the motherlode in Big Cypress National Preserve Monday night, finding two female Burmese pythons, nearly 20 hatchlings and nearly 100 hatched and unhatched eggs amid efforts to rid Florida of the invasive species.

A group of ex-employees has raised concerns that a Pompano Beach casino expansion project may displace threatened burrowing owls living on the property’s soon-to-be-developed race track.

A loggerhead turtle is rehabbing at Zoo Miami's new Sea Turtle Hospital after a shark bit off most of her left fin.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it’s the 17th panther death recorded this year.

On Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was informed that wild birds in Brevard, Indian River and Volusia counties may have died as a result of the “bird flu.”

Veterinarians at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon are working to save a loggerhead turtle, they say was hit by a boat in the Florida Keys.

Florida is proposing to lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath groupers after wildlife officials argued their numbers have rebounded.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Florida’s beloved manatees, affectionately known as the “cows of the sea,” are always a sight to behold as they grace our Florida waters. However, since the beginning of 2021, the sea cow population is decreasing at an alarmingly fast rate. In the first five weeks of 2021, manatee deaths in Florida reached more than half of what they were in all of 2020. As of February 24, more than 350 manatee deaths have been recorded in Florida in 2021, which is three times the usual average for the same time period, according to The Weather Channel. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, at least 358 manatees have died in Florida since Jan. 1.