We were generally told that centipede bites were not fatal, but two informants said that they each heard of a person dying following a centipede bite; a young boy and a priest, but were unable to provide specific details. Field Observations on three scolopendrid centipedes from Mauritius and Rodrigues (Indian Ocean). Lewis et al. 2010. […]
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Photo: Heidi Rockney, Burkey Museum People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like the Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards. Gary Larson. Garter snakes in general are the most likely snake to encounter in North America the common garter snake
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This is an eastern U.S. fish – I went to undergraduate (NJ) and graduate school (MD) back east and worked back there for another 8 years (with one summer in AK) before I landed back in Seattle for good, so I’ll throw in some interesting eastern species now and then. The Percidae family includes the
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Creative Commons image © 2013 John P. Clare. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders. – One Hundred Years
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SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce. 1911
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