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 ...

A South Florida pizza shop created what they believe to be the world's first iguana pizza. Content creator Ryan Izquierdo brought cold-stunned iguanas to Bucks Coal Fired Pizza. The pizzeria says if ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, government attorneys say a reimbursement agreement isn't even finalized. The Department of Justice is preventing a federal grant from going to Florida to pay for the Everglades immigration ...

The Department of Justice is preventing a federal grant from going to Florida to pay for the Everglades immigration detention center that the state calls “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to Florida’s ...

Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ancient animals Jack Tamisiea During the Late Permian period more than 255 ...

In a freak twist of nature that has become almost a local winter tradition, residents across Florida are witnessing hordes of green iguanas literally fall out of trees during rare cold snaps — a ...

Pixar’s Hoppers premieres in just over a month on March 6, 2026. In anticipation of the film, Tom the Lizard has made his own debut at ESPN’s First Take in San Francisco this morning. Tom the Lizard ...