BIG PINE KEY, Fla. -- A deer in the Florida Keys is breathing more easily after a deputy removed a Doritos bag from its head. The Monroe County sheri...

Many of us Miamians spend much of our time in nature hoping NOT to see certain Florida animals -- alligators and pythons, for example -- so it's refre...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Four llamas are being evaluated at a southwest Florida veterinary hospital after being involved in a crash on Interstate 75....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun t...

Looking at these photos of adorable baby animal friends at Florida's Dade City Wild Things, it's hard to imagine a less likely trio of pals. Tiger cub...

In choppy seas bloody with chum, miles from the safety of shore, a Fort Lauderdale amateur photographer realized a hair-raising dream: to swim with a ...

Tuesday morning, an Islamorada resident called the Monroe County Sheriff's Office to report that a nine-foot crocodile was nesting in her front yard. ...

Manatee deaths in Florida appear to be on a record pace and could reduce the gentle sea creatures' overall population to dangerous levels, according t...

TAMPA -- Here's the latest in the long history of headlines about nature gone wild in Florida: Millions upon millions of giant killer mosquitoes are m...

DADE CITY -- A monkey destined for a research lab could instead end up living with the former Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay, who now goes by the name Co...

Case closed! After the discovery of a giant eyeball that had people scratching their heads, researchers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva...

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla., Sept 21 (Reuters) - Florida wildlife experts are preparing to dodge alligators and large hairy spider...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- More than 20 pilot whales came ashore on a South Florida beach on Saturday, triggering a daylong effort by state and national off...

Staff from the South Florida Water Management District got a surprise while out monitoring the Everglades: a lost manatee. The sea cow was happily ...

In the past three months, black bears have bitten a Florida woman on the butt while she was walking her dog and been filmed wrestling in a Florida fro...

One of Florida's official state animals -- the endangered Florida panther -- was hit by a car last month and left to die on the side on State Road 82 ...

JENSEN BEACH, Fla. -- A man was bitten in the arm by a shark off Florida's eastern coast amid several reports of sharks in water. Martin County offic...