Approximately 1200 individual trees in the central areas of the campus have been
Approximately 1200 individual trees in the central areas of the campus have been
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
grow bigger, possibly because of readily available food in… Read More Caecilians have
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
Florida Museum of Natural History
 Here at the Florida Museum, things have been shut down for … Continue It’s the
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
a glimpse of Florida’s forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists have
Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the more than 200 species of leaf-nosed bats, there are those that hunt insects; drink nectar; eat fruit; munch pollen; suck blood; and prey on frogs, birds, lizards and even other bats. T
fossils from Central America by Jerald Pinson • February 20, 2024 Researchers have
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
