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

The voles will make their way up to the surface now and then for a breath of fresh air and a look around, but overall, the small owls get fewer chances to catch a vole when the snow is deep.

Florida wildlife officials and researchers say Nile monitors, large predatory lizards native to sub-Saharan Africa, have ...

Nile monitors are semi-aquatic, so Florida’s waterways suit them. They travel along water edges, slip into culverts, and use banks and rock piles for cover. In a place stitched together by canals, ...

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In a way, that’s exactly what she studies. A heliophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MacDonald, working remotely in Walla Walla, has spent her career chasing the mysteries behind the ...

Aurorasaurus has grown into a vibrant community of observers who help scientists track everything from sudden storms to rare colors. Some of the project’s most remarkable discoveries began with ...

For invasive reptile hunters in Florida, there’s another predatory lizard on the radar. Nile monitors, native to Africa, are populating parts of the Sunshine State, and they can now be killed ...

Rare species spotting – of dung beetles, skylarks, adders and others – has become something of a local passion in a village ...

I just received the results of the 2026 Winter Waterfowl Count held on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. The weather on the count ...