Florida Wildlife

Manatees vocalize while feeding, resting, or playing using high-pitched squeaks, squeals, squeak-squeals, and chirps. Learn about innovative research being conducted at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota exploring how and why manatees vocalize.

The Florida Museum of Natural History is looking for your help to track two species of native bee that you’ll probably hear before you see. Southeastern plasterer bees live in scrub, pineland, and sandhill habitats; adjacent open areas; and along roadsides.

Wildlife biologist Dr. Jerry Jackson explains why the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is now extinct.

The Florida Museum of Natural History is looking for your help to track two species of native bee that you’ll probably hear before you see. Southeastern plasterer bees live in scrub, pineland, and sandhill habitats; adjacent open areas; and along roadsides.

A new report from the Nature Conservancy shows the proposed toll road is a high risk to already critically endangered species

After six months rehabilitating from injuries that required a "feather transplant," a male bald eagle is returned to the wild.

Longtime residents of Southwest Florida have seen a great deal of environmental change over the decades. The rapidly growing population has meant rapidly…

The Pigmy Rattlesnake is four to six inches long at birth and some adults can reach two and a half feet – although most reach only about 20 inches. It is…

The Little Blue Heron is indeed little – perhaps a little over knee-high – and it is also grey-blue all over with a tinge of rusty-purple on its neck.…