With winter temperatures setting in, more alligators have left local ponds and rivers and are out sunning themselves, which could increase interactions with people. Florida has about 1.3 million alligators of every size. They have inhabited Florida’s ...

Spectacled caimans in South Florida are mainly found in manmade habitats such as canals, artificial ponds/lakes, and ditches.

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History,