David Carr highlights the birds, mammals and marine life you might see on vacation from the mountains to the coast.

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

Learn about the eyelash palm-pitviper of Costa Rica, a vividly colored venomous snake with unique “eyelash” scales.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two rare coastal birds, the Piping Plover and the Brown Booby, are expected to be in Central Texas this July.

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

The Fourth of July celebration features a parade down Newman Street that epitomizes small-town America – fire trucks with sirens blaring, local business floats throwing candy to children scrambling ...

We've rounded up 20 Florida beaches that will make you feel like you've sailed to the Caribbean—no passport required.

These tropical destinations offer next-level serenity and solitude—so book your trip before everyone else discovers these hidden gems Idyllic beach vacations without the crowds For those seeking ...

After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...

Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can ...

For researchers across the Caribbean, the combination is heartbreaking. “We are at a point that we have to do everything we know and we can to be able to save coral reefs,” Pizarro says.

eighing in at a single ounce, the white-crowned sparrow can fly 2,600 miles, from Mexico to Alaska, on its annual spring migration, sometimes traveling 300 miles in a single night. Arctic terns make ...