The wildlife conservationist was just 15 when he and Fallon got into a staged — yet very convincing — backstage spat on The ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Spectrum News spent Thursday outside the immigrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," attempting to get visual confirmation of the state's plan ...

MIAMI — United States District Judge Kathleen Williams issued an injunction in the environmental case against "Alligator Alcatraz" late Thursday that will prevent the immigrant detention facility from ...

Activists and outdoorspeople insist the human, pollutive impact of the detention center imperils landscape and wildlife, not the other way around.

Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

A man from the Bluffton area was arrested last month for allegedly assaulting and threatening a wildlife officer who ordered him to “leave the gators alone” near his residence. Shane Lucas Smith, 51, ...

Three Burmese pythons were recently found at Florida homes, including one discovered inside a truck engine. While pythons generally avoid urban areas, they are known to inhabit nearby environments, ...

At Everglades National Park, visitors watched as a hefty alligator wrestled with a Burmese python, thrashing the snake's body in the water before sinking its jaws back in, reported the Miami Herald.

A video, single-handedly, left the internet with a new fear unlocked after it showed a ‘5-foot long alligator inside an ...

Bayden Armstrong is a Fall 2025 photographer for The Independent Florida Alligator. She is a sophomore Media Production, Management and Technology major. In her spare time, you can find her vintage ...

A group of Mississippi hunters were hoping for a 12-foot alligator and they had one in sight in an oxbow lake near Natchez. It was about 15 minutes or so before the season opened at noon on Friday, so ...