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
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
NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Florida Green Water Snake Basic description Most adult Florida Green Watersnakes are about 30-55 inches (76-140 cm) in total length. Adults are stout-bodied snakes and may be greenish, brownish, or orangish, with no real distinctive markings other than dark speckl
They have not been recorded in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Holmes counties
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Research News Zachary Randall Scientists and imaging specialists have teamed
Middle Archaic in the Greater Southeast and Northeast Florida By Kenneth E. Sassaman, May 2001 Until recently, the Middle Archaic period of ca. 8000 to 5000 years ago was regarded by archaeologists as a time of small, mobile, hunter-gatherer populations whose cultural differences could be explaine
In some cases the change may have entailed permanent settlement of riverine sites
Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and inch-long African frogs that spend their entire lives in and around the banks of small puddles. In fact, the title for the
Jerald Pinson • June 16, 2022 Brachycephalus frogs are so small, they appear to have
Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
studying the cultural history of ancient civilizations and the ways in which people have
Biologists discovered the Maryland Darter in 1912 in a creek in Maryland, and the reclusive fish wasn’t seen again until being found in a different creek in the 1960s. Infrequent sightings of the fish continued until it was last seen in 1988. Summary Maryland Darter (Etheostoma sellare) From Ha
the only species of freshwater fish in the United States known with certainty to have
A pivotal new study led by NatureServe reveals that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction. This first-of-its-kind, taxonomically diverse assessment evaluated nearly 1,600 species—including bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, flower flies, bats a
We also have a lot of plant diversity, which begets insect diversity.
Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often duplicate their entire genome and hang on to the added genetic baggage. All those extra genes are then free to mutate and produce new physical traits, hastening the tempo of evolution
A new study shows that such duplication events have been vitally important throughout
