The woods between Blountstown and Tallahassee are home to many rare plants and species found nowhere else in the world, including a freshwater mussel that lives in the Ochlocknee River and a ...

The Suwannee moccasinshell has distinct ridges that cut through the long end of its oblique shell, giving it the appearance of a moccasin. (Courtesy of Michael Gangloff via Florida Museum) To ...

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity—or small-scale holes—in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has ...