When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive.

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

The team, half of whom are women, captures alligators for health checks and tracks invasive Burmese pythons. Researchers use technology like radio telemetry, drones, and thermal cameras to manage ...

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Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive reptile and amphibian species.

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

Shutterstock Image Florida's invasive python population is a bit like the Terminator down in the Sunshine State. There's just no stopping them. Not even dropping temperatures are getting the snakes ...

Ralstonia bacteria cause rapid wilting and death in plants. The bacteria also make an unusually fluid "goopy" secretion. A collaboration between UC Davis plant scientists and engineers shows that this ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, despite attracting some critics Through gene-editing, researchers in the field ...