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The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). [2] [3] [4] This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting ...
The dragon was built in 1971 by Florida artist Lewis VanDercar and property owner Aynn Christal. [1] In 1981, the statue was expanded for new property owner Warren McFadden, with the addition of a tail, an extended neck, two cavepeople - a caveman named Fred and a cavewoman named Wilma, [ 2 ] and four hatchling dragons named Joy, Sunshine ...
The Sea Dragon appears in the first-season finale of the 2019 Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. The series is set in an alternate history timeline in which the 1960s-era space race did not end. In the post-credits scene, which takes place in 1983, a Sea Dragon is depicted launching from the Pacific Ocean to resupply the US lunar colony.
No land animals were present in Florida prior to the Miocene. The largest deposits of rock phosphate in the United States are found in Florida. [1] Most of this is in Bone Valley in central and west-central Florida. [2] Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used ...
A shallow sea grew to cover most of the state during the Paleogene. Clams, echinoderms, and gastropods lived here. [4] Cenozoic limestone formed in such environments is common in Florida and rich in fossils. The oldest fossil-bearing geologic deposits in Florida are of Eocene age. [1] During the Eocene, primitive whales like Basilosaurus swam ...
A living Apalone ferox, or Florida softshell turtle †Florida †Florida caerulea †Floridaceras †Floridachoerus †Floridatragulus; Fontigens – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature; Fossaria †Fossaria cubensis; Fossarus; Fragum; Fulgurofusus; Shell in multiple views of a Fulguropsis whelk ...
As the land from Lake Okeechobee slopes gradually to Florida Bay, water flows at a rate of half a mile (0.8 km) a day. Before human activity in the Everglades, the system comprised the lower third of the Florida peninsula. The first attempt to drain the region was made by real estate developer Hamilton Disston in 1881.
Sarasota Bay was known to be a prolific fishery as described by early area settlers. [9] During the second Spanish Colonial period (1783-1821) there were fishing camps, called ranchos, along the bay that were established by Spanish fisherman from Cuba who traded fish and turtles with merchants in Havana. [10]