Invasive pythons have established themselves as dominant predators in ecosystems that did not evolve alongside large ...

When zebra mussels invaded the United States, nobody realized how financially or ecologically damaging these minute mollusks could be.

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

A Florida bank president and her husband support local wildlife conservation efforts in Southwest Florida. The Clinic for the ...

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In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...