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We recently read a wonderful paper about some snakes’ tails fluorescing under black light.  It seemed odd to us that they didn’t mention whether or not an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) had this same condition, so we checked it out for ourselves.  As you...

Christopher M. Murray1,2, Peter Russo3, Alexander Zorrilla4, and Caleb D. McMahan5   The freshwater crocodile inhabiting Papua New Guinea, currently recognized as Crocodylus novaeguineae, exhibits morphological, molecular, and ecological divergence between the northern and southern versants of the Central Highlands and occupies separate evolutionary trajectories. A robust...

On January 18, 2019 Karen Allen came to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.  John Brueggen, our Director, and his wife, Jen, took her and two of her friends (Joan and Charlynn) on a tour of the Farm.  Joan and Karen were in St. Augustine to...

Using objects as hunting lures is very rare in nature, having been observed in just a handful of species. We report the use of twigs and sticks as bird lures by two crocodilian species. At least one of them uses this method predominantly during the...

Many species alter skin color to varying degrees and by different mechanisms. Here, we show that some crocodylians modify skin coloration in response to changing light and environmental conditions. Within the Family, Crocodylidae, all members of the genus Crocodylus lightened substantially when transitioned from dark...