Tag: Florida

Green and loggerhead sea turtles that nest in central Florida are smaller overall on average than they were four decades ago. But researchers aren’t sure why. Katrina Phillips, a PhD...

Starvation has driven a record number of manatee deaths in Florida in the first half of 2021. In the past six months, 841 West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) have died,...

Wildlife officials with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and private trappers have removed 250 alligators from Disney properties in central Florida since 2016. The removals began after an alligator...

A red wolf swam away from an island wildlife refuge in Florida in April and turned up several miles away on the mainland three days later. The four-year-old male wolf...

An introduced population of Africa vervet monkeys living near a Fort Lauderdale airport arrived there after escaping from a chimpanzee farm more than 70 years ago. In a new study...

Small satellite tags glued onto green sea turtle hatchlings are revealing where the reptiles go immediately after they leave the beaches of central Florida. The discovery will help researchers better...

Brown anoles can be seen all over the streets of Gainesville, Florida. In wild areas nearby, though, the invasive Cuban lizards aren’t nearly as common as, say, native green anoles...

Endangered snail kites depend on a good balance of water levels in the aquatic ecosystem of southern Florida. Too much water or extremely dry conditions might give different predators easy...

Marsh rice rats may be good indicators of a properly restored wetland ecosystem in the Florida Everglades. The rats’ presence can tell land managers whether water management plans are working...

It may come as a shock, but electrifying fake seabird eggs and filling them with toxins are both strategies that help protect imperiled seabirds from crows. Fish crows (Corvus ossifragus)...