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Only two states followed in the 1970s, but the ensuing decades saw nominations at a rate of almost one per year. State birds are more common, with all 50 states naming one, and they were adopted earlier, with the first one selected in 1927. Before their formal designation as state reptiles, Florida's alligator, Maryland's terrapin, and Texas's ...
October 15, 1966. The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. The mound is the largest serpent effigy known in the world.
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The Northern Black Racer is a long, shiny black snake known to reach 1,854 mm (6 ft). They have a plain white chin with most black/brown heads, with the center of the tail being plain white. [ 6] Upon hatching, the juveniles tend to have dark gray to reddish-brown dorsal patterns with a light gray to brown body that becomes occluded with age ...
Scarlet kingsnake. The scarlet kingsnake or scarlet milk snake ( Lampropeltis elapsoides) is a species of kingsnake found in the southeastern and eastern portions of the United States. [ 4] Like all kingsnakes, they are nonvenomous. They are found in pine flatwoods, [ 5] hydric hammocks, pine savannas, mesic pine-oak forests, prairies ...
Ohio's state bird, the cardinal (C. cardinalis), was designated the state bird by the General Assembly in 1933. [19] It was then listed as effective in the Ohio Revised Code in 1953. [13] State animal: State animal – white-tailed deer: The white-tailed deer (O. virginianus) became the official state animal in 1988. [13] State reptile
United States Association of Reptile Keepers. The United States Association of Reptile Keepers (USARK) is a 501 (c) (6) nonprofit organization. USARK describes itself as "a science, education and conservation based advocacy (organization) for the responsible private ownership of, and trade in reptiles." [1]
The Yellow sea snake ( Hydrophis spiralis) is the largest of the sea snakes growing up to a length of 3 m (10 ft). Few other elapids can reach or exceed 3 m (10 ft) in length and 9 kg (20 lb) in weight. [ 65][ 66] The Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is one of the heaviest venomous snakes in the world.