Got any extra, unwanted beads from Gasparilla Pirate Festival? You can bring them to this Florida aquarium to prevent further ...

Beads will be plentiful as they fly through the air during Saturday's Gasparilla parade, and the Florida Aquarium wants your ...

Swashbuckling invaders will stop by downtown Tampa on Tuesday afternoon before they take over the city for the annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest.

Here are the headlines you may have missed from the weekend in Florida.

TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) - The Florida Aquarium in Tampa is restoring reefs one polyp at a time. Aquarium workers transplanted 9,000 baby coral polyps born at the conservation center. All of them will ...

ZooTampa welcomed an Eastern Bongo calf. There are fewer than 100 Eastern Bongos left in the wild.

ZooTampa at Lowry Park announced the birth of a critically endangered Eastern bongo calf, marking the first animal birth at ...

After 40 years of exhibiting jellyfish — and a ton of other animals from small sand dollars to giant bluefin tuna — Julie Packard is stepping down as executive director, a position she has held since ...

The proposal, called the MANTA Protection Act, has support from both political parties. Max Chesnes is the Tampa Bay Times' environment and climate reporter, covering public lands, water quality, ...

Snook Haven, a popular waterfront restaurant and park in Sarasota County, has been closed since May. Here’s what’s next for the icon.