Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Ullin, Illinois, is the kind of landscape that makes you do a double-take and check your GPS to make sure you haven’t accidentally crossed into Louisiana.

A calm shoreline can look completely harmless until something moves beside the water. That moment reminds visitors that wild places still run on their own rules. Cottonmouths live in wet habitats ...

Witness the power and speed of an alligator snapping turtle’s bite in this close encounter ...

Final defendant in Brevard County alligator poaching case gets probation, drawing criticism from animal advocates.

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Friday afternoon that the state has appealed a federal court ruling that would have severely limited operations at the state's immigrant ...