While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

Winter in Florida means more time outdoors, and possibly more exposure to tick-borne diseases. But the news isn’t all bad: ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

The western fence lizard seems like a pretty regular lizard, until you find out that its blood can cure Lyme disease in ticks ...

Don Pedro Island State Park floats like a mirage off Florida’s Gulf Coast – a stress-dissolving paradise that somehow remains underappreciated while visitors flock to the state’s more commercialized ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas offers lots of great spots for outdoor recreation, including this trail that hiking ...

While the Grand Canyon may be Arizona’s best-known national park, it’s not the only one worth a visit. With 22 National Park ...

Oh, Florida! It’s so cold in the Sunshine State frozen iguanas are falling from trees. Where you can find them and things to know about the reptiles.

FWC pleads with fashion, commercial fishing and other industries to make use of iguanas for clothes, bait and other uses.

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

Sabino Canyon is a place of colorful cliffs, colossal cacti, lush streamside scenery and, you might have noticed, lizards - lots and lots of lizards. To highlight that reptilian resource, managers of ...

MIAMI (AP) — A man suspected of being the “pillowcase rapist” in a string of South Florida rapes back in the 1980s was convicted Monday in another one of the attacks. MIAMI (AP) — A man suspected of ...