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Bonne Terre (/ b ɒ n ˈ t ɛər / bon-TAIR) is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States with a population of 6,864 at the 2010 census.Situated in the Southeast Missouri Lead District, lead mining shaped the history and character of the area from the earliest French settlers in the 1720s until today, even though Bonne Terre Mine established by St. Joseph lead mining company in ...
This is a list of fatal alligator attacks in the United States in reverse chronological order by decade. All occurred in the South , where alligators are endemic to wetlands and tidal marshes . The state of Florida, where most attacks and deaths occur, began keeping records of alligator attacks in 1948.
“Donny” the orange alligator pictured sunning near a pond in Calabash, N.C. in February, 2017.
This alligator and the American alligator are now considered to be sister taxa, suggesting that the A. mississippiensis lineage has existed in North America for seven to eight million years. [ 1 ] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s, and it suggests the animal evolved at a rate similar to mammals and greater ...
“Of the 5 sites, 4 of the sites where alligators were observed were simple culverts, and for this reason most of the alligator observations were of animals swimming from one pond to another (35 ...
St. Francois County (/ ˈ f r æ n s ɪ s / FRAN-siss) is a county in the Lead Belt region in the U.S. state of Missouri.At the 2020 census, the population was 66,922. [1] The largest city and county seat is Farmington. [2]
Two-Toed Tom is a legendary alligator in the Southern United States who terrorized swamp residents in Florida and Alabama. The name originates from the legendary alligator having lost all but two toes on one or more feet to a steel trap.
The alligator inspired the creation of merchandise such as a full coloring book- featuring the story of "Chicago Chance and Frank Robb", Chance the Snapper bobblehead figurine [23] and two locally brewed beers, Revolution Brewing's Humboldt Gator [24] and Urban Renewal Brewery's The Humble Gator.