Gulf Coast Indigo Snake
Museum scientists recently described the Gulf Coast Indigo Snake as a separate species from the similar Atlantic Coast snakes. These…
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Florida Kingsnake
Native snakes play an important role as natural predators in many of Florida’s ecosystems. Kingsnakes were once common in Paynes…
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American Crocodile
Hunting and habitat destruction have caused severe declines in Florida’s American Crocodile populations. Conservation efforts brought crocodiles back from the…
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Florida Jujube
Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen collected in 1949. It…
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Florida False Rosemary
A species unknown to science until the 1990s, Florida False Rosemary occurs in small populations in very restricted scrub habitats…
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