Science

Dale Shields, a.k.a. the ‘Pelican Man’ created the Pelican Man Sanctuary in the 1980s after finding an injured brown pelican. Since then it has grown into Save Our Seabirds, which receives 5,000 calls a year about birds in distress.

Water quality issues have become a very visible problem in Florida in recent years with toxic algae clogging waterways and killing off shocking amounts of wildlife. 

The Wounded Warrior Project put on an event in the Florida Keys where a group of wounded military veterans had the chance to swim with bottlenose dolphins as part of an initiative to help with their mental health.

Winter the dolphin may be gone, but her legacy lives on at Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where another dolphin rescued from the Space Coast just became a permanent resident.

Good Samaritans stopped traffic on a San Diego highway to help a sea lion after the animal managed to wander onto the busy road. Sea World rescuers then captured the sea lion -- but they say this actually isn't the first time they've had to help him.

2021 was a morbid year for Florida manatees, with mortality rates reaching an all-time high. FWC reports a record-breaking 1,101 manatees died last year.

It’s not unusual to see a variety of wildlife at TECO’s Big Bend power plant, but Friday morning, it was tarpon that were out in full force.

Every Friday morning, Captain Dylan Hubbard of Hubbard's Marina joins Good Day to fill viewers in on his fishing forecast as we head into the weekend. Here is his fishing report for January 7, 2022.

NASA hopes putting its library of patents into the hands of college students will spur new ideas for business and beyond.

FWC officers say 10 people from Atlanta face nearly 60 combined charges after using 1,660 feet of illegal gillnets to capture 500 pounds of snook, barracuda, catfish, mullet, sheepshead, sharks near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.