Diving for invasive iguanas in Florida with 'Python Cowboy' About 10% of Mike Kimmel's clients want to try their hand at diving for an escaping iguana. Of those, about half are successful.

Arctic air spread across Florida on New Year's Eve, forcing cold weather shelters to open from the Panhandle to the Treasure Coast.

There was a time when iguanas were admired as novelties in Florida, roaming unmolested and being fed like stray cats. No longer.

In the week preceding Christmas, average temperatures from the Panhandle through the Keys have been as high as 7 degrees warmer than normal.

Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...