NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Saltmarsh Watersnake, Atlantic Saltmarsh Watersnake, Gulf Saltmarsh Watersnake, Mangrove Saltmarsh Watersnake Basic description Most adult Saltmarsh Snakes are about 15-30 inches (38-76 cm) in total length. Color patterns of these snakes are extremely variable. Ad
Cottonmouths have vertically elliptical (cat-like) pupils, whereas watersnakes have
Let’s look a little closer at sharks parts, habits, and biology:
Male sharks have paired intromittent organs called claspers.
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
butterfly group September 11, 2013 Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have
NON-VENOMOUS, NON-NATIVE Other common names Brahminy Blind Snake, Flowerpot Snake Basic description Most adult Brahminy Blindsnakes are about 4.4–6.5 inches (11.2–16.5 cm) in total length. These snakes are small, thin, and shiny silver gray, charcoal gray, or purple. The head and tail both appea
They have now been found from Key West north throughout much of the peninsula, and
Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida’s largest slice of visible bedrock towers more than 100 feet above the surrounding banks. With a rich fossil record of plants, Alum Bluff offers a glimpse of Florida’s forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists
Researchers have also found microfossils, such as pollen and fungal spores – invisible
The Everglades is threatened by introduced plants and animals. The Everglades National Park was established to protect the diverse natural habitats of the region which include freshwater marshes, hardwood hammocks, pinelands, cypress swamps, mangrove swamps, and estuaries. However, despite
Introduced species are those organisms that are native to somewhere else that have
While we often think of bees as fuzzy, black and yellow-striped buzzy insects that live in hives like the honey bee, the truth is more gorgeous and diverse than that! Honey bees do a lot of agricultural labor for humans and are very important to farming, but here in North America most of these domes
In fact, people who identify bees for a living often have to look at really small
North America’s rarest snake, Tantilla oolitica (rim rock crowned snake), was recently spotted in a park in the Florida Keys after a four-year hiatus. While this would normally be cause for celebration among conservationists, the snake sighting was more a source of incredulous awe than anything else
The fatal duel marks the first time that scientists have observed the snake’s eating
In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out of the more than 7,000 living today, has true teeth on its lower jaw. The culprit, a large marsupial frog named Gastrotheca guentheri, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1882 for
This rare species, for which there have been no reported sightings since 1996, is
NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Diamondback Watersnake, Northern Diamond-backed Watersnake Basic description Most adult Diamond-backed Watersnakes are about 30-60 inches (76-152 cm) in total length. These stout-bodied snakes are light grayish-brown with a dark chain-like pattern down the entire
Cottonmouths have vertically elliptical (cat-like) pupils, whereas watersnakes have
