While the Everglades are home to hundreds, if not thousands, of unique species of birds, reptiles, fish, mammals, and insects, not every creature that inhabits the area today can say that they’ve always called this area “home.” Some have found there way here accidentally, while others were brought here due to human intervention, and while […]
Though the Burmese python is arguably the largest and most well-known invasive species in the Everglades, it is actually not the species that poses the greatest threat to the wildlife natives of the area. The biggest threat comes in a much smaller package – the Argentine black and white tegu, a species of lizard that […]
Every visitor to the Everglades will see a few of the usual suspects – alligators, frogs, birds – as well as a few species that are relatively new to the area. Once such species is the Burmese python – a species of snake that was not present in South Florida at all previous to 1979, […]
