Daily Archives: October 16, 2008

Milking snakes

There are 800 snakes — many of them venomous — hanging around the outskirts of DeLand in Volusia County. It’s a soon-to-open-to-the-public Reptile Discovery Center, but it’s actually been around for a few years. Owner Carl Barden has been making … Continue reading

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Science scores up 14 points at Polo Park Middle

Here is an interesting story about a partnership between Discovery Communications (responsible for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet) and Polo Park Middle School in Palm Beach County. Discovery went above and beyond in helping the school implement a new … Continue reading

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Fish Fossil Yields Anatomical Clues on How Animals of the Sea Made It to Land

In a new study of a fossil fish that lived 375 million years ago,Tiktaalik roseae, scientists are finding striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates evolved into animals that walked on land.  The New York Times’s … Continue reading

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