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Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo lies a shaded grassy area where 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and burrowing — unable to return to the wild but safe in a haven built just for them.
Robert McMahon’s broccoli, beets and basil aren’t in jeopardy.
In her home nestled on Southeast 23rd Lane, Conjwanna Robinson had a family and three decades of history — but the Florence Landfill was enough to make her want to pack up her life and leave. She wasn’t alone.
In the swampy outskirts of Gainesville, the iconic alligator may steal the show among the reptilian ecosystem. But on Southwest Archer Road, Florida Man Reptiles showcases its very own population of nearly 100 reptiles and amphibians.
Under the fluorescent lights of Southwest Second Street’s How Bazar, dogs, cats, snakes and birds circled around the venue Friday, adorned in handmade crochet outfits. The proud owners accompanied each pet, stopping to let the crowd that lined the perimeter admire them, an event organizers call ‘Barkin' Market: A Night at the Circus.’
Gainesville residents of all ages filled the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall Dec. 2, learning about animals and summoning snow alongside Santa Claus, Frosty and Perry the Mouse.
Some reptiles crawl, some slither and some are prohibited in the state of Florida.
After three hours of screaming early 2000s melancholy tunes to a stand-up microphone surrounded by inflatable skeletons, laser lights and fog machines to the jam-packed crowd at Vivid Music Hall, Jade Meadows slips on a pair of designated post-show slippers for the night.
The Alachua County Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve a spending plan worth millions for funding conservation and parks across the county.
For the first time in its history, UF will be mandated to shop for accreditors between now and 2025.
With the clock frozen at one minute, senior guard Myreon Jones took the inbound pass from forward Colin Castleton. The Penn State transfer found forward Anthony Duruji on the low block, who transformed an underhand layup to a lob back towards the top of the key.
It’s a story we know all too well — small-town girl, big reputation.
While biology may not sound like a creepy affair, some UF researchers are closely studying bizarre diseases that rot amphibians’ skin, along with a new species of worm-like creatures and lizards that eat other animals and their eggs.
With more than 500,000 books, records, games, CDs, DVDs, paintings, posters, puzzles, magazines and more, there’s something for everyone at the semi-annual Friends of the Library book sale. But when the nonprofit’s current president, Jonathan van Blokland, looks back on his years working the event, he’s most enraptured by the people.
Rays of sunlight beamed into a cage, illuminating the trimmed vegetation and the painted metal bars of two monkeys’ renovated habitat.
A bridge in Northeast Alachua County collapsed on July 7 after enduring flooding from Tropical Storm Elsa, and the county is unable to fix it.
Overwhelmingly pink decor covers a wall in hip-hop up-and-comer TiaCorine’s house.
Laura Junio thought she’d be homeless by this week. She knew her family would manage, she said, but she was afraid they would have to give away their pets.
Alachua Conservation Trust plans to devote its most recent grant to the protection of one of the nation’s most endangered ecosystems: the Longleaf pine population.
Ethan Gamble leans far back — teetering nearly 8 feet above the ground, he narrowly avoids the ceiling as he rides his neon green giraffe unicycle through Weimer Hall’s breezeway.
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