Wildlife

Forest Ranger Beats Huge Python to Death With Rake, Posts YouTube Video, Retires for Unrelated Reasons

​Most people eat cake and slack off on their last day of work. Not Jean Bernard Tarrete. The former forest ranger wrapped up his career with the Florida Forest Service at the end of March by hunting down a 15-foot Burmese python, wrestling with the beast while a coworker beat it to death with ... More >>

Zombie Honeybees Found in California

​It may sound like some truly bad straight-to-DVD movie, but Scientific American is reporting the discovery of zombie honeybees in Northern California, which may provide a clue in the search behind colony collapse disorder.A research article recently published in Plos One, a peer-reviewed science ... More >>

Florida Has World's Worst Invasive Amphibian and Reptile Problem, According to UF Research

University of FloridaThis iguana doesn't belong in Florida, but here it is at someone's front door in Lake Worth.​If you're looking for a reptile or amphibian species that "causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health," chances are, it's in Florida.According ... More >>

Monarch Air Says It Will Stop Shipping Monkeys

South Florida SMASH HLS​Animals rights activists are claiming victory after a local private airline, Monarch Air Group, agreed to stop shipping primates for research. Monarch, which runs private passenger and cargo flights from its base in Fort Lauderdale, sent a letter to the animal rights group ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Gettin' Squirmy With It

NBC/Universal​Bravo's Top Chef has (mostly) been a beacon of light in the dimly lit world of reality television. On Top Chef people are smart and driven and even though there are sharp knives and open flames, no one has been stabbed or set on fire purposely. Though some past chall ... More >>

Food Mystery: Vanishing of the Bees

Vanishing of the Bees - Trailer from Bee The Change on Vimeo. Honey, if you haven't heard about the disappearing bees, you are in for a shocker! Vanishing of the Bees is a film currently screening across the country (this Sunday in Palm Beach Gardens) about the massive disappearance of bees from hi ... More >>

Florida Otters May Look Cute, but Lately They've Been on the Attack

​Florida's otters are up to no good.First, in March, a 90-year-old man in Venice, Florida, was brutally mauled by a rabid otter, which came streaking from the bushes of an otherwise peaceful street like a cute, button-nosed demon. The otter went for the man's foot and brought him crashing to the g ... More >>

Crocodiles Take a Bite Out of Grand Central

​Florida's otters are up to no good.First, in March, a 90-year-old man in Venice, Florida, was brutally mauled by a rabid otter, which came streaking from the bushes of an otherwise peaceful street like a cute, button-nosed demon. The otter went for the man's foot and brought him crashing to the g ... More >>

An Ocean of Art

​Florida's otters are up to no good.First, in March, a 90-year-old man in Venice, Florida, was brutally mauled by a rabid otter, which came streaking from the bushes of an otherwise peaceful street like a cute, button-nosed demon. The otter went for the man's foot and brought him crashing to the g ... More >>

Panda Baby

​Florida's otters are up to no good.First, in March, a 90-year-old man in Venice, Florida, was brutally mauled by a rabid otter, which came streaking from the bushes of an otherwise peaceful street like a cute, button-nosed demon. The otter went for the man's foot and brought him crashing to the g ... More >>

Primate on the Rocks

In a Wilton Manors bar, the monkeys are cool and the Cocksuckers are creamy

RIP, Silver

Landfill Memorial

Shark Bites

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory.

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory.

27 Holes on the Fourth

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory.

Best Place to Snorkel

Fort Lauderdale

Lion Country's Stud

An elephant's, um, premature problem means zookeepers have a messy job

Net Free

A whimsical journey on the wings of a butterfly

By Susan Eastman

For the Birds

Should 2700 little sparrows be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Turtle Tryst

Save the baby sea turtles!

Best Fishing

Lake Worth Pier

Armed and Dangerous

"Monsters of the Deep" features squids and sharks and dinosaurs -- oh, my!

Troubled Waters

Big wave-riding among the sharks of New Smyrna Beach -- the calm before NYC's storm

Best Hunting

J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area

Aardvark Aadventures

Arthur: A Live Adventure

Deepest, Darkest... Florida?

Lion Country Safari

Best Hunting

West of U.S. Highway 27

A Fishy Bit of Environmentalism

Local fishermen say a proposed ban on fishing around Broward's coral reefs is a ploy by diving promoters to build business

Declarations of Independents

Forget strip malls, condos, and highways. Loxahatchee Groves is a place of dirt roads, wild pets, and eccentric residents.

Rub-a-Dub-Dub, It's a Manatee Tub

Manatee Viewing Area

No Bird Is an Island

Conservationist Paul Reillo has waged a one-man campaign to save Dominica's parrots from extinction

Beetlemania

Insect Adventure

Flipped Out Over Flipper

Dolphin activist RussRector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

Flipped Out Over Flipper

Dolphin activist Russ Rector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

Who's Manateeing the Phones?

State wildlife officials say that amateur hotlines set up to help protect endangered manatees are putting the animals at risk

She's Crafty

State wildlife officials say that amateur hotlines set up to help protect endangered manatees are putting the animals at risk

Surf 'n' Safari

State wildlife officials say that amateur hotlines set up to help protect endangered manatees are putting the animals at risk

A Natural Alliance

Buck Island Ranch is home to the threatened caracara, and it's a laboratory where ranchers and conservationists are learning to work together

Best Place To See Wildlife

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Best Place To Bird-Watch

Wakodahatchee Wetlands

Best Kids' Thrill

Butterfly World

Best Pet Store

Pet World

The Straight Dope

Pet World

Cold-Blooded Smuggling

The recent bust of a Hollywood importer sheds light on an illegal reptile trade that has adventurous smugglers making easy money

Your Endangered Species Ate My Exotic Species!

Turns out the Florida panther has a taste for deer kept on the Seminoles' hunting preserve. Now the tribe wants payback.

Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

Turns out the Florida panther has a taste for deer kept on the Seminoles' hunting preserve. Now the tribe wants payback.

Letters

Turns out the Florida panther has a taste for deer kept on the Seminoles' hunting preserve. Now the tribe wants payback.

Call of the Wild

Turns out the Florida panther has a taste for deer kept on the Seminoles' hunting preserve. Now the tribe wants payback.

Bureaucrats Play "Skim the Cat"

Money from Florida's best-selling license plate was supposed to help protect the panther. Instead it's going for swamp buggies and butterfly gardens.

Bird Is the Word

Money from Florida's best-selling license plate was supposed to help protect the panther. Instead it's going for swamp buggies and butterfly gardens.