Tag: Florida

For Florida’s manatees, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission believes the population is much higher than previously estimated. New counts...

Researchers have identified a new species of salamander — the first discovery in its family since 1944. The reticulated siren (Siren reticulata) is the largest vertebrate found in the United...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) stopping over in Florida while traveling north have declined 80 percent since 2005, according to a new study. The monarchs stop in Florida on their spring...

Officials believe red tide is likely behind the death of more than 22 bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) that washed up dead on Southwest Florida beaches last month. Officials with the...

A population of nonnative rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) introduced in central Florida is set to double by 2022 unless steps are taken to reduce it, biologists found. But dealing with...

Cooperation to conquer screwworm and protect Key deer Imagine happening upon an animal through a cloud of flies and the smell of decay, its body full of wriggling maggots as...

While Perkinsea may be less widely known than amphibian diseases such as chytrid fungus and ranavirus, the pathogen is also killing off frogs throughout the United States and around the...

A new study has found that bottlenose dolphins in Florida’s Sarasota Bay have been exposed to a chemical compounds used in a range of cleaning products, cosmetics, plastics and other...

An array of exotic reptiles introduced to the wilds of Florida is posing a growing threat to the state’s bird life, according to a recent article on Audubon.org. It’s not...

Biologists studying invasive pythons in the Florida Everglades came across a disturbing finding. While most of the snakes they studied showed genetics of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus), as expected, 13...