You’re looking at a satellite view of Florida’s Everglades, the largest subtropical wilderness in the US. It’s not a static wetland, but rather a ‘river of grass,’ a slow-moving river 60 miles wide and 100 miles long. Keep zooming in and you’ll likely see sawgrass marshes, mangrove trees, tropical birds, and a gator or two. Among the myriad interesting things about this unique and fragile ecosystem—it’s the only place in the world where American alligators and American crocodiles co-exist. How do you tell the difference between the two? Well, you see one later and the other after a while. (See what we did there?)
National Park Week: Everglades National Park
Today in History
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A special day for a special cat
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World Childrens Day
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Happy Star Wars Day!
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Fall comes to the Last Frontier
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Jan van Eyckplein in Bruges, Belgium
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Monarch butterflies, Pismo Beach, California
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Ponta Delgada
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Exploring the wilder side of New York
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Autumn comes to the Porcupines
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Monarch butterflies migrate south
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Sweetheart Abbey, Scotland
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The Guggenheim turns 60
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Nha Phu Bay, Nha Trang, Vietnam
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Spring awakens
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A water loch-ed castle
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Party like it’s 5779
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Bobbing for crab apples
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A good time in the Badlands
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Atop the Needle of Chamonix
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Aura River in Turku, Finland
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In the belly of Fat Bear Week
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Wayag Islands in the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia
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