Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing ...

SEARCHING FOR THE BEST SWIMMING LAKES IN FLORIDA? You’ve come to the perfect place. We’ve spent months traveling Florida and ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

Spring break is right around the corner and summer is right behind it, which means more people swimming, tubing, wakeboarding and skiing in Florida lakes — lakes that more than one million alligators ...

It was a sunny July morning on Lake Cane, right around the corner from Universal Studios, when Jerome Madigan, best known by basically everyone as "Jay" jumped in, launching from the side of a pontoon ...

Reptiles and Florida might as well be synonymous, especially when it comes to our slithering neighbors. According to the WorldAtlas, Florida has 46 native species of snakes, as well as four invasive ...

Florida is home to more than a million alligators and it's generally assumed that any body of water in the Sunshine State has a gator in it. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, they prefer ...

Florida has an estimated alligator population of 1.3 million, spread across all 67 counties. It's illegal to kill, injure, or capture alligators in Florida without a permit. The Statewide Nuisance ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave ...