While the blue whale holds the title as both the largest and heaviest animal ever known, other whale species can weigh ...

Florida wildfire burns 30,000 acres in Big Cypress as historic drought fuels smoke, road closures and threatens wildlife.

The 126-metre-long ship went down with all its cargo when it was bombed in World War II. Now its trucks and motorbikes are home to barracudas, sea turtles and reptilian-looking crocodilefish.

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

After landing a massive dogtooth tuna, we thought the hardest part of the day was over — until we found fresh crocodile ...

Aaron Rodwell has a wild passion for local seafood, spending days on the reef evading sharks to reel in some of the best tasting fish in the world, and selling them direct to Maggie Island locals.

Whether they do so for food, or simply the humans are in the wrong place at the wrong time, these are the animals that eat the most humans annually.

Quatisha "Candy" Maycock was abducted from her bed by Harrel Braddy in 1998 Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal writer at PEOPLE's crime desk. Her work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington ...

A surfer was bitten by a shark that broke his board in Northern California this week, in the state's first shark incident of the year. "It was like being hit by a car," Tommy Civik told Bay City News, ...

Everyone knows by now that Florida has a problem with the invasive Burmese python. Wild Burmese pythons can pose some risk to humans, even those who aren't purposefully pursuing them. Traffic ...

It's peak bulking-up season for white sharks in Monterey Bay, and over the past week, two animals previously tagged by scientists passed through the waters near Lovers Point—the same area where ...