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 Mississippi Green Water Snake Basic description Most adult Mississippi Green Watersnakes are about 30-55 inches (76-140 cm) in total length. Adults are stout-bodied snakes with a dark greenish background color and several narrow darker markings alternating down th
These snakes have not been recorded from anywhere else in Florida.
NON-VENOMOUSÂ 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
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
Frankincense and Myrrh family by Jerald Pinson • December 19, 2023 Paleontologists have
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
Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Special Collections Building 3207 Hull Road University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-273-1829 slapcin@flmnh.ufl.edu Collection Invertebrate Zoology Education M.S., University of Virginia B.S., George Mason University Research Interests I
efforts to sample the terrestrial snails of the islands of New Guinea and Madagascar have
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Research News Zachary Randall Scientists and imaging specialists have teamed
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
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
