The female common yellowthroat songbird is harder to identify than the male, especially in its first year.

The male two-stripped walking stick is much smaller than the female.

A listener finds a marbled orb weaver spider recycling an Illinois river cruiser dragonfly.

A necropsy on a canebrake rattlesnake reveals its last meal.

A listener finds a tooth on Edisto Beach which may have belonged to a mastadon.

If you pick up the eastern hog nose snake, it will play dead. It's pretty scary looking, though , so most people don't bother.

The larva of the lacewing butterfly stacks the dead carcasses of its prey, its molts, and dirt onto its body for camouflage.

This nonvenomous snake is found from the Midlands to the mountains of South Carolina.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Atlantic sturgeon were a highly sought after target for commercial caviar fishermen on the Atlantic coast. Overfishing and pollution were initial reasons identified for population declines. Successful fall spawning has occurred for 3 consecutive years in 2011, 2012 and 2013 at the Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery, SC . A successful temperature regime for fall spawning (without the use of hormones) has been developed for natural tank spawning

The puss caterpillar has stinging bristles. It is the larval form of the southern flannel moth.