Florida’s latest Arctic blast has turned canals, lagoons, and coastal flats into mass graveyards for warm‑water fish, with thousands of carcasses surfacing in just a few days. Native sport species and ...

Climate change is rapidly altering freshwater ecosystems — raising temperatures, altering flood pulses and oxygen levels — and driving complex, region-specific changes in how fish grow, migrate and ...

LAKELAND — Wading Bird Way has recently become Vulture Vista at Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland. Hundreds of black vultures and turkey vultures gathered along the trail the morning of Feb. 8, ...

Cold weather can stun non-native iguanas, but native Florida wildlife has various ways to cope. Fish move to deeper, warmer water, while some sharks have internal heating mechanisms. Native reptiles ...