Simply called "the Big Cypress" by Gladesmen and older folks in south Florida, the national preserve was established in 1974.

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles. But this 6-foot-long African lizard poses an especially big threat.

An environmental group says it has reached “a stipulated settlement agreement” with the U.S. government “that moves 11 Florida species closer to Endangered Species Act protections.” The Center for ...

The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” was embroiled in controversy before it opened last summer. Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe sued ...

Someone put Kali in a metal cage and left her to die in the Everglades. Everglades Angels rescued, treated and found a new home for Kali. Lani Evans, a ReMax Realtor from Port St. Lucie, adopted Kali ...

The reptile, a tegu, had frostbite and showed signs of weakness from exposure in this week’s cold weather. It was unclear where it came from. By Aimee Ortiz A Rhode Island man digging out his driveway ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a “lizard in a blizzard” has been rescued after a man discovered the large cold-blooded reptile buried in snow in Rhode Island, somehow surviving the ...

A 1960s-era house at 631 Island Drive in Palm Beach has changed hands for a recorded $31.75 million. The sellers, Richard and Linda Schapp, bought the property for a recorded $7.9 million in 2012. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Providence man looking out the window after Sunday night’s snowstorm spotted an unexpected visitor just outside his home: an exotic lizard. The New England Wildlife Center ...

Alligator Alcatraz, shown here in June, is located on an old landing strip that was initially built as part of an international airport planned in the 1970s and defeated by environmentalists. The land ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...