OKEECHOBEE, Fla., July 31 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife authorities said a 17-foot, 2-inch Burmese python was captured and destroyed on a private property in Okeechobee County.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla., July 26 (UPI) -- The author of a new cookbook says residents of Florida should begin eating iguanas to avoid a possible population explosion of the animals.
ORLANDO, Fla., July 1 (UPI) -- University of Central Florida student Rosanna Tursi says population genetics may help save an endangered rabbit species in the Florida Lower Keys.
PARIS, May 22 (UPI) -- Pollution, climate change, invasive species and habitat destruction are killing Europe's native reptiles and amphibians, wildlife experts said.
PORTSMOUTH, England, May 11 (UPI) -- The appearances of dozens of extinct species of animals that lived alongside the dodo on several Indian Ocean islands have been replicated, researchers say.
BUSHNELL, Fla., April 18 (UPI) -- A Bushnell, Fla., exotic pet dealer says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is overreacting by barring him from obtaining some reptile species.
MIAMI, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Florida conservation officials have killed more than 800 swamphens in the past 18 months in an effort to rid the Everglades of the invasive species.
HADDONFIELD, N.J., May 12 (UPI) -- A New Jersey park remained closed Saturday while the search continued for an alligator or crocodile spotted in the lake.
SYDNEY, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Australian wildlife officials are wondering how a 2-foot estuarine crocodile wound up in a pond in the middle of Sydney.
BAMBANG, Philippines, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Philippine Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office agents have arrested a woman know as "Batwoman" for selling endangered wildlife species.
