Roughly 39 taxa (plural of taxon, which I use as a term to refer to each specific "kind" of snake in order to encompass each species and subspecies) of native snakes can be found in the wilds of Indiana. These snakes can be organized into three broad categories, based on the anatomy ...
in June 2019, severe storms in central and southern Indiana caused floods that left thousands of households powerless. Several roads also had to be closed after there werereports of cars being stuck in the floods.
The most common is theGarter Snake.I find them lounging in the sunshine near the small Goldfish pond in my backyard. Other snakes that can be found in the BU Nature Preserve as well as throughout Broome County include theRingneck,Milk Snake,Northern Water Snake,Red-Bellied Snake, andSmooth ...
The excreted fluid, being composed of lactic acid and acid phosphatase, serves to hydrate and separate the layers by breaking apart the "glue" that holds the old and new scale layers together (e.g., desmosomes).Various senses of this Northern Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi dekayi) are labeled...
The northern Mexican garter snake The giant garter snake The narrow-headed garter snake The San Francisco garter snake Several species are also under review, meaning that they may be added shortly. Check to see which snakes are protected in your area. ...
Scientists recently discovered bush vipers (Atheris mabuensis) living in closed canopy forests of northern Mozambique. Swamp vipers (Proatheris superciliaris) are closely related to the bush vipers, but they live a terrestrial, rather than arboreal, lifestyle. Scientists doubt either of these vipers...
Here, we provide direct evidence of the impacts of property management and restoration activities on a population of Northern Copperheads ( Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen ) in southern Indiana, showing that several managed habitats can and do attract Northern Copperheads and simultaneously place them ...
243–248Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin (1996). Google Scholar Brochinski, A. inGuimarota: A Jurassic Ecosystem eds Martin T., Krebs B. 59–68Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil (2000). Conrad, J. L. Phylogeny and systematics of Squamata (Reptilia) based on morphology. Bull. Amer. Mus. ...
have measured more than 10 meters (33 feet), larger than any living species of snake. Before Titanoboa was discovered in Colombia in 2002, it was regarded as the largest snake ever. Gigantophis lived approximately40 million years agoin the northernSahara, where Egypt and Algeria are now ...
If you don’t like that sort of twisty fiction, you’re likely to get bored and lose track of all the characters and places (Crumley “played fast and loose with the geography” of West Texas and Northern California). I enjoyed it a lot, and I’m not usually a fan of detective ...