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Boats took one to and from Discovery Island79

Florida - Vacation - Walt Disney World - Discovery Island

This hub will address the half day that we spent while on vacation in Florida's Walt Disney World on the Discovery Island. The year was 1990 and my mother, niece and I had made plans to spend five days at...

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It is not unusual to see an alligator in Florida fresh water. Alligators are not choosy, they may appear in back yard ponds, canals, the Florida Everglades, or the worse case scenario, a private pool.77

Florida Paradise

Ponce de Leon was searching for the fountain of youth when he landed on Florida's shore. Being impressed by the flora and fauna he named his peninsula Florida( flower). Maybe Ponce de Leon realized referring...

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While we usually think of alligators and crocodiles as looking like this, if we go back into their evolutionary history, we find their ancestors were very different.85

Evolution of Alligators and Crocodiles

It's hard to imagine, but modern crocodylians (alligators, crocodiles and gavials) are very different from their ancestors. The ancestors of crocodylians were not aquatic ambush predators as their descendants...

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Southern Florida - Everglades - Take a Ride in a Hovercraft

If you are traveling to southern Florida and planning your itinerary, a must to put on your list is a trip across Alligator Alley with your destination being the swamps in the Everglades. There is nothing...

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Ebel 1911 BTR Automatic Chronograph Swiss Watches Review

Ebel 1911 BTR: design, functionality, movements, materials, complications.

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Lake Charles, Louisiana -- Where logs can be swamp dragons, giving little boys and girls nightmares74

Swamp Dragons

When he was one hundred years old, he could still outrun a race horse, and knock an unsuspecting cow off it’s feet. He’d never been handsome, in fact most thought him quite ugly. Few can get past looking at his teeth without shuttering. Not by choice, I’ve had a relationship with him and his relatives for as far back as I can remember. I don't hate him, but he's not my friend today, nor was he ever. Peaceful co-existence is the best that either of us can hope for.

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Some Important Freshwater Inhabitants and Amphibians of Amazon Rivers

The Amazon's endless quite streams, lakes and warm equatorial and tropical climates make a heaven to the all Freswater Inhabitants and Amphibians living in this basin. The Greatest Freshwater River basin of...

8 comments    turtles frogs crocodiles
Henry Lee Lucas87

Famous Serial Killers

Henry Lee Lucas Was Henry Lee Lucas America's most horrific serial killer ever or was he really the greatest liar ever. He gave detailed confessions of his crimes but later took back his confessions and said...

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The parts of the brain covering complex emotions have not evolved in reptiles, just the brain stem and cerebellum (red)  diagram by crystalinks.com79

Killer Reptiles: Wouldn't You Rather Have a Dog?

The Reptile Brain Takes No Prisoners. I was interested (again) to read of a “tame” 12-foot Burmese Python which broke out of its pen and killed a two-year-old child in Florida this week by strangling...

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Pictures of American Crocodile and American Alligator showing characteristic snout shapes.72

What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?

The first difference between a crocodile and an alligator is that they are from different families of crocodilians. Crocodiles are from the crocodylidae family, while alligators and caiman are from the...

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