The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

Two record fish were caught in 2025: the heaviest Atlantic bonito off Stuart and the longest snook off St. Lucie County. See ...

Grouper, snapper and pompano sit on ice at Brooks Dockside Seafood in Inglis, Florida on Thursday, May 1, 2025. Kylie Williams WUFT News Florida recreational anglers will face seasonal fishing ...

Manatee resting at Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS The Trump Administration has proposed new changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Some conservation organizations oppose ...

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it's sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year. Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink ...

Feral hogs can weigh several hundred pounds. Giant African land snails are known to eat stucco off of buildings Iguanas can be more than 5 feet long, and they poop everywhere. Florida's warm climate ...

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year. Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink ...

A famed American ocean liner that once symbolized speed, engineering power, and national pride will soon take on a very different role — becoming the world’s largest artificial reef. According to The ...

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found. Elkhorn and staghorn ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

A 2023 marine heat wave laid waste to elkhorn and staghorn coral, which have thrived for centuries off Florida’s coast. Elkhorn and staghorn coral have dominated the Caribbean’s coral reef systems for ...