Unseasonably cold weather in Florida affects native and invasive reptile species. Iguanas can become immobilized and fall from trees when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. Alligators ...

Arctic air is expected to bring unusually cold temperatures to Florida. Iguanas can become temporarily paralyzed when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. A major die-off of invasive ...

Fashion trend forecasters should flag snake skin as the next big thing in the Sunshine State. The invasive Burmese python, which has been terrorizing the natural wildlife of the Florida Everglades for ...

The Florida government is ridding the Everglades of invasive pythons by allowing fashion brans to turn them into luxury accessories. Inverse Leathers Shopping will now save the planet. Florida ...

Mote’s New Science Education Aquarium Is Open Years in the making, the $132 million facility includes 1 million gallons of aquatic exhibitions, including sharks and stingrays, manatees, otters, ...

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — The long-awaited opening for the new Mote Science Education Aquarium is here, and the preview line wrapped around the door for those first few families looking to check it out.

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...

His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach. Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the invasive Burmese python scourge — chilly weather. Researchers who track the elusive and ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s new complex will open on Oct. 8, the organization announced Monday. Located at Nathan Benderson Park off Interstate 75 and marketed as a “nexus site” for Sarasota ...

The new Mote Science Education Aquarium (SEA) will open to the public on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025—a $130 million undertaking that represents both the largest expansion in Mote Marine Laboratory’s ...