The state Department of Natural Resources said it is at this point not concerned about chronic wasting disease, which is fatal and affects deer and other cervids, outside of Lanier and Berrien where it was detected last week. But there is some new guidance. 

It may seem far-fetched to believe your pet could be carried off by a larger bird, but it can and does happen. In fact, Georgia is home to the main culprits when it comes to pet abduction.

Is Georgia about to be invaded by giant Argentine lizards? Well, that wasn’t on the 2024 bingo card. Don’t worry, it’s not happening, but we should keep our eyes peeled.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Board on Tuesday voted to limit future ownership of Burmese pythons, along with Indian rock pythons, Argentine black and white tegus, Nile monitor lizards, African helmeted turtles and Chinese softshell turtles.

Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication that the prehistoric fish may be reproducing in Georgia for the first time in a half-century. Polluted water and markets for caviar and fish meat had wiped the species out of the Coosa River in the 1970s.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking for the public's help in documenting sightings of the eastern hellbender, a river-dwelling salamander found in North Georgia.

A bizarre video shared by Georgia wildlife officials has convinced a growing number of people the state is home to mentally unstable snakes.

A small Southern fish would soon become a new threatened species in Georgia and Tennessee under a federal proposal announced Wednesday.

The frecklebelly madtom, which is a kind of catfish, favors the free-flowing waters of river channels and tributaries in a handful of Southern states, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has pinpointed the populations in Georgia and Tennessee as particularly fragile. The state of Georgia has already flagged the fish as endangered.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is considering changes to the rules governing shark fishing. Two deepwater species of sharks, the Ocean...

There is definitely oil in the marshes near St. Simon’s island where a shipping vessel capsized this month. That’s the conclusion of University of...

More than a week after a cargo ship capsized in the St. Simons Sound on the Georgia coast, oil is being found on grasses in nearby marshes. The first...

The Georgia coast is a central calving spot for North Atlantic right whales; however, last year, no new calves were spotted there, and that caused great...