A frozen iguana hit the deck after cold weather swept through South Florida in January. Here's what to know about the plummeting lizards.

The officer pulled up to 29-year-old Carlos Fabian Mercado de Choudens, who was fishing with four other people. The officer checked one of Mercado’s buckets and found several bluegill fish, according to the report, which added Mercado didn’t have an active fishing license.

As American crocodile populations have risen in recent decades, the threatened reptiles have made their way into suburban canals, adapting to the human environment as best they can.

Arapaima are native to South America, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports. DeSoto County Sheriff's Office photo An exotic fish that can reach 14 feet landed two men in ...

A recent USF study caused a stir when it reported that manatees were a nonnative species that arrived relatively recently to Florida. Here, a manatee biologist with Save the Manatee Club looks at

Deputies then discovered a 28-inch Arapaima in a gray plastic tote that had been fitted with a battery-operated air pump, officials said. The species is native to South America and one of that size is worth $1,000, the affidavit states.

Two key questions remain when it comes to the proposed red tide remedies: how to scale them up so they can treat large areas and how to pay for the treatments.

The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned in the last week. Many of the sea turtles were rescued near St. Joseph Bay, a region of the Gulf west of Apalachicola and east of Panama City.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission invites K-12 students to submit artwork for its Florida Fish Art Contest The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) is hosting its annual Florida Fish Art Contest. The contest is open to all youth from kindergarten to twelfth grade (ages 5-18).

Six South Florida restaurants were temporarily forced to close after state inspectors found violations ranging from rodent droppings to roaches (both live and dead) to improper storage of raw

Police said it is believed the anchor became detached and the boat floated with help of strong winds for roughly three weeks just over 300 miles before washing ashore in Vero Beach.