Living in Florida is never boring. It may be hot, but we get excited when a "cold front" is predicted that will drop temperatures into the 80s or, gasp, the 70s. And who knows, we might — emphasize ...

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Urban lakes usually aren’t home to record-breaking fish, but Orlando’s Lake Lawne is going into the record books not once, but twice. It’s all thanks to Pat McDaniel and the Florida gar. McDaniel’s ...

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 ...

The Florida Everglades are full of unique fish species, including many that are normally kept in aquariums. On this trip we used a cast net to catch several unusual fish including catfish and baby ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crooked gar isn’t a known species, but a unique longnose gar caught by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Crooked gar isn’t a known species, but a unique longnose gar caught by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist must not have gotten the message. On July 2, the FWC Fish and ...