The reptiles, an endangered species, were incapacitated when the water temperature plummeted after a rare winter storm hit the Panhandle last week.

More than 1,200 sea turtles were rescued in northern Florida following a significant cold-stunning event in mid-January.

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The FWC reported that nearly all of the affected turtles were green sea turtles, except for eight loggerheads and one Kemp’s ridley. These turtles were reportedly discovered cold-stunned, a condition

A Florida Keys homeowner woke up Friday morning to find a crocodile lounging in her swimming pool, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The reptile was lying on one of the pool’s chairs inside the Pirate’s Cove subdivision in Key Largo,

Thirty sea turtles were rescued from the freezing waters during an unprecedented snowstorm that blanketed parts of Florida with six to eight inches of snow.

On Florida’s east coast, offshore Nassau and Volusia counties, an ongoing cold-stunning event has harmed about 120 green sea turtles so far. While that’s far fewer than the hundreds rescued off the Panhandle, it’s the most stressed turtles the state has documented in Northeast Florida, according to the wildlife agency.

During Florida’s historic weather event, FWC officers rescued 30 sea turtles from freezing waters in Gulf County.

“Florida currently has more than 17,000 square miles of suitable bear habitat, of which 46% is protected,” the local BHA chapter wrote in a Jan. 12 blog post about bear management in the state, adding that “state-wide bear-related calls are at an all time high, with a 42% increase from 2016.”

Some 30 cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued as temperatures on the Gulf Coast plummeted to historic lows this week.

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Deputies then discovered a 28-inch Arapaima in a gray plastic tote that had been fitted with a battery-operated air pump, officials said. The species is native to South America and one of that size is worth $1,000, the affidavit states.