Florida can feel like an open-air reptile zoo. The state is home to dozens of nonnative lizard species, most of which are bigger, faster and stronger than native lizards. The reptiles range from ...

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — A First Coast News crew was walking through Dutton Island Preserve in Atlantic Beach, filming video for a story when something caught their attention. Stradling a guardrail was ...

As a battle for territory unfolds between two different species of lizards invasive to Florida, a team of University of Florida scientists is trying to determine what it could mean for public health.

Can one Florida invasive lizard preying on another that doesn't belong here lead to more mosquito bites and dangerous viruses for us all? Researchers suspect the answer might be 'yes.' Invasive brown ...

What's orange (or red) and blue, long and fast? And it could be outside your door, under your car, in the tree over your head ... you get the picture. Say hello to the Peter's rock agama. They're not ...

Green iguanas arrived to South Florida in the 1960s. 132 Argentine black and white tegu lizards were seen in St. Lucie County in 2021. Burmese pythons have been spotted on the Treasure Coast at least ...

During a cold snap in southern Florida in January, residents were warned to watch out for paralyzed lizards falling from trees. The lowest temperatures in a decade stunned and immobilized the lizards, ...

MIAMI — Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects’ more obscure targets — and how even a ...