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Eustatius and Saba Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian
For more than 500 years before the arrival of Menéndez, the Timucua people of the St. Augustine area had been living in much the same way as they were in 1565. They were organized as chiefdoms (societies comprised of several allied communities with a hereditary central political authority), and wer
Recommendations: Hann, John. 1996 A history of the Timucua Indians and Missions.
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Eustatius and Saba Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian
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Eustatius and Saba Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian
Coryphaena hippurus The dolphinfish is also often called mahi-mahi, and not at all related to the marine mammal dolphins. This colorful, distinct fish has a long body and a blunt face, with a forked caudal fin (tail), and a dorsal fin that runs the length of its body. It is brightly colored, most
dolphinfish is distributed in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the Atlantic, Indian
Pleistocene Epoch 2 million to 10,000 years ago The ice ages of the Pleistocene wreaked climatic havoc on the northern continents, but Florida was buffered from the worst effects by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, rapid pulses of climate change profoundly affected the area.
Paleo-Indians entered the Americas in search of favorable climates and plentiful
Long Term Monitoring of Lepidoptera in the Bahamas Since 1980, Jacqueline Miller has been monitoring butterfly populations in the West Indies and especially in the Bahamas. Through field work with her late husband, Lee, and others, seven new taxa were described and six new records discovered in the
Bahamas, especially in relation to Papilio demoleus, a widespread African and East Indian
Miocene Epoch 23 to 5 million years ago The Miocene in Florida was a time of abundance with grassland savannahs and a variety of woodland habitats that supported a wide range of food for browsing and grazing animals. With more diversity of herbivores, came more specialized predators too. Explore
Prosynthetoceras texanus (Texas slingshot horned artiodactyl) Chilabothrus stanolseni (West Indian
This searchable gallery includes 220 entries of Florida freshwater fishes, each with a live image, key characteristics for field identification and habitat description. The information is based on the “Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida” guide and atlas written by Florida Museum ichthyolog
Choctawhatchee River (90) Econfina Creek (59) Escambia River (93) Everglades (75) Indian
Puerto Real was founded just ten years after Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas, as part of the very first wave of European imperial expansion into the New World. Puerto Real was one of 17 towns established as part of an island-wide colonizing effort between 1502 and 1506 specif
vecinos (landowning citizens) whose wives were listed in 1514, two were married to Indians
