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
Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which like
“You can walk around these hills and find chunks of chert that have just weathered
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had me
North Florida Researchers and volunteers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have
Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species
and Myrrh family by Jerald Pinson • December 19, 2023 Paleontologists have
The Florida Museum of Natural History has received a consultation/documentation grant for $99,897 from the National Park Service this month. The grant was one of several given to 16 tribal nations and 28 museums to support repatriation efforts. The Park Service distributed a total of $3.4 million th
As of 2022, museums across the country have returned 1.86 million funerary items
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
butterfly group September 11, 2013 Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have
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
This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, located in the End of the Pleistocene corner case. Summary Mammoth Ivory Point with Incised Pattern From Jefferson Co., Florida Lived/Made ~12,000 years ago Collection Florida Archaeology Story
Similar shaped tools of bone and ivory have been found across Florida as well as
Mammals of Lake Worth Lagoon
Resources Florida Museum Fish Collection Overview For the past decade we have
In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an unexpected link between Caribbean bird life and the Old World. Like many animals unique to the Caribbean,
relatives of cave-rails, were large, flightless birds with big beaks that could have
