Florida residents and visitors might expect to see the occasional alligator on a golf course or beach and perhaps even lizards falling from trees now and then, but a recent wildlife encounter in the ...

Experts explain how invasive pythons and other reptiles in South Florida react to freezing temperatures - and why cold weather won't solve the problem.

Alligator sightings are pretty common on Southern golf courses - see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Also, here. (RIP, Timmy the Turtle.) But here’s one that deserves distinction.

Because alligators and crocodiles are ectothermic, they have to rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body ...