Invasive pythons have established themselves as dominant predators in ecosystems that did not evolve alongside large ...

When zebra mussels invaded the United States, nobody realized how financially or ecologically damaging these minute mollusks could be.

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

A Burmese python named Spot has been named the new Prezoodent at the Utica Zoo after winning the 2026 election.

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

Once the dogs were safely outside, she carefully maneuvered out from beneath the blankets. The snake, which poses no venom ...

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Scale matters as much as behavior. When a reproducing invasive species occupies broad habitat and remains hard to census, the system does not settle quickly. It keeps producing fresh overlap zones ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...