For more than 500 years before the arrival of Menéndez, the Timucua people of the St. Augustine area had been living in much the same way as they were in 1565. They were organized as chiefdoms ...

Excavations since 1976 at the Fountain of Youth Park (8-SJ-31) have located what we believe to be the site of the Spanish settlement established by Menendez in 1565. Some features at the site may be ...

Sources: All accidental death information from National Safety Council. Disease death information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Shark fatality data provided by the International ...

Shark Attack Trends International Shark Attack Files Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall 1659 Museum Rd PO Box 117800 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7800 352-392-2360 ...

Xerces Blue butterflies were last seen in the early 1940s in the San Francisco Bay area. It is one of the first American butterflies to become extinct from habitat loss caused by urban development. In ...

Explore shark attack data in the United States with interactive maps and detailed information from the International Shark Attack File.

The average adult Florida cottonmouth is 30-48 inches (76-122 cm) in total length. This snake is heavy bodied with a pattern of light brown and dark brown crossbands containing many dark spots and ...

Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States, with all known occurrences in Florida and Texas. Type locality is Santa Fe River 1, Columbia County, Florida. Figure 2. UF 4108, distal tarsometatarsus of ...

The sun was ducking in and out of the clouds on Monday morning as exhibit keepers Ryan and Isabel carried … Continue ...

These very small, bumpy frogs have a distinct Y-shaped pattern on their backs. Their call is similar to a cricket. They are found throughout most of Florida and look very similar to the northern ...

Key points In an article recently published in the journal Evolution & Development, Andrei Sourakov — an expert on Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History — described the results of a ...

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