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VENOMOUS Other common names Cottonmouth, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Water Moccasin, Moccasin Basic description The average adult Florida cottonmouth is 30-48 inches (76-122 cm) in total length. This snake is heavy bodied with a pattern of light brown and dark brown crossbands containing many dark sp
The open mouth threat display of cottonmouths has led to the widespread belief that

The first documented shark attach in the Americas, cal AD 789-1033. There are no eyewitness accounts, only the testimony of the bones. Yet our knowledge of prehistoric lifeways and forensic anthropology allow us to reconstruct what probably happened. The incident went something like this: „Th
Photo © Linda Budinoff The characteristics of the multiple cut marks led me to

Christian Couch, M.S. Graduated Summer 2024 Email: christian.couch@ufl.edu  I am an M.S. biotechnology student in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences.  I work on many molecular projects relating to conservation, biodiversity and phylogenetics within Lepidoptera. I am also interested i
This also led to an internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

As part of our celebration of the RRC’s 25th anniversary, we invited Bill Marquardt, RRC’s co-founder and first director, to summarize some of the key events in its history. Close your eyes for a minute and listen. Unless you are hearing-impaired, you are likely to notice something – traffi
In fall 2013, Cindy led a project to enhance interpretive materials in the classroom

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de Soto’s 16th-century expedition through the Southeast. Many of the objects were repurposed by the resident Chickasaws as household tools and ornaments, an unusual practice at a time
The Chickasaw Nation and its Chickasaw Explorers Program co-led and funded the research

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribb
One Fairchild-led study showed that salt levels were higher in soil beneath dead

Before the summer of 1916, there was still debate about whether sharks could kill humans. Most people were not even sure if a shark could bite a human. One of them was New York multimillionaire Hermann Oelrichs, who offered a $500 reward in 1891 for anyone who proved a shark attacked a human. Tha
fact that a great white shark was later caught with human remains in its stomach, led

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida’s Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thous
Aggressive nutrient reduction efforts in the region led to water quality improvements

Thunnus thynnus These torpedo-shaped fish are the largest of the tunas, growing to an average of 78 inches long, but recorded at 180 inches and over 1,500 pounds. They are strong and fast swimmers with black-edged yellow finlets running back from curved dorsal and anal fins to a crescent caudal (
Photo © Tom Greene The popularity of this tuna in commercial markets has led to

Hexanchus griseus This large, deepwater shark is an example of significantly more primitive species found only as fossils. It has a broad, flat head, large green eyes, and a small, single dorsal fin far along its back. Average length is 15 to 16 feet long, and it is gray to olive to brown in colo
be unable to sustain pressures from target fisheries and as bycatch which have led