On Saturday, Boots was relocated from Port Aransas to Gator Country in Beaumont, ending his long run as one of the coastal ...

Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Cynthia Diekema, 61, was killed by an alligator while on a canoe ride with her husband in Florida last year D.L. Miller Funeral Home Cynthia Diekema, 61, was canoeing with her husband last year when ...

THE EXPERTS ABOUT GATOR SAFETY. IT’S THE TAIL END OF GATOR MATING SEASON HERE IN FLORIDA. THAT MEANS MALE GATORS ARE MORE ACTIVE, TERRITORIAL, AND THAT COULD LEAD TO MORE HUMAN ENCOUNTERS. IN GENERAL, ...

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Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the “box” at the migrant detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz could amount to torture. The human rights ...

The report claims detainees at Alligator Alcatraz face punitive punishment and unsanitary living conditions. A spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis' office called the report a "politically motivated ...

Since Florida opened the controversial Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention site in the middle of the Everglades this past summer, migrants have reported inhumane and unsanitary conditions, ...

A Detroit woman found an unexpected surprise after burying her son over the weekend: a large alligator in her son's bedroom. According to Mark Rosenthal of Animal Magic, the nearly six-foot alligator ...

An appeals court has overturned a lower court's order to close the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. Protesters continue to hold weekly vigils at the facility, demanding its closure and legal ...

Here's something you don't often see in the Charles River: an alligator. But over the past few days, walkers along the Esplanade might've done a double-take, wondering for a moment if they'd somehow ...