As Floridians enjoy the cooler fall weather outside, they might want to be aware of our slithery neighbors also enjoying the ...

Tropical Panorama theme park was open in the 1950s at Biscayne Boulevard at 185th Street in Northeast Miami-Dade, now ...

Our cat found a snake inside our home and alerted us to the potential danger. Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre ...

With more than 260 species and 1,000 animals, IguanaLand in Punta Gorda, Florida is making a name for itself with ...

Komara Outdoors, a traveling education program based in Youngstown, helps kids overcome their fears and learn about reptiles.

Earlier this year, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida passed an astonishing milesone: The nonprofit announced it had taken 20 tons of pythons out of the western Everglade – the rough equivalent of a ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach. Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the invasive Burmese python scourge — chilly weather. Researchers who track the elusive and ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens is throwing a goodbye party for PJ, a greater one-horned rhinoceros and a 13-year resident of the Sanford attraction. The animal is being transported to Buffalo ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — Zoo Miami announced the death of its last remaining lion, Kwame. He was euthanized on Friday, a day before his 18th birthday. Veterinarians said Kwame had been treated for chronic ...

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...