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,

As American crocodile populations have risen in recent decades, the threatened reptiles have made their way into suburban canals, adapting to the human environment as best they can.

The officer pulled up to 29-year-old Carlos Fabian Mercado de Choudens, who was fishing with four other people. The officer checked one of Mercado’s buckets and found several bluegill fish, according to the report, which added Mercado didn’t have an active fishing license.

A frozen iguana hit the deck after cold weather swept through South Florida in January. Here's what to know about the plummeting lizards.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission documented over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtle rescues within six days.

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.

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

The satellite-tagged croc that became an internet sensation known as the " Melbourne Beach crocodile " lit up social media with his back-and-forth sightings in Brevard County, Florida. He was among 15 satellite-tagged crocs lending new insights into how these top predators adapt to city life.

A pair of wildlife officers in Florida rescued 30 cold-stunned sea turtles amid unusually low temperatures in the region.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WFLA) — An alligator measuring over 10 feet long was pulled from a storm drain in South Florida on Saturday. According to the Cape Coral Fire Department, a person walking by noticed the gator stuck in the drain in the area of 2857 NW 27th Street in Cape Coral.

According to social media posts shared by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, deputies were called out to a home in the Pirates Cove subdivision near Mile Marker 98 in Key Largo, where the large reptile was found lying out on the homeowner's submerged deck.

The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned in the last week. Many of the sea turtles were rescued near St. Joseph Bay, a region of the Gulf west of Apalachicola and east of Panama City.