A mystery is afoot in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, and it involves fully grown alligators who are missing a lot of their teeth. Gators are supposed to have around 75 to 80 teeth at any one time, but ...

University of Georgia and UGA Marine Extension and Sea Grant researchers visited three sites — Okefenokee Swamp, Jekyll Island, and the Yawkey Wildlife Center — and collected blood samples from over ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is an enormous peat bog 38 miles long by 25 miles wide, created 7,000 years ago. Kenneth Fletcher When I first read about the Okefenokee Swamp as a 10-year-old boy, I immediately ...

World Heritage status is an honor reserved for the planet’s most iconic natural and cultural treasures — places like the Great Barrier Reef and Yellowstone National Park.

The best way to test a kayak, is to go on a real paddling adventure. That's what I did to test the Decathlon Itiwit X500 inflatable kayak. In this episode of Paddle Tales, I'm getting my first taste ...

Okefenokee Joe, an alligator believed to have lived in a Georgia swamp since World War II passed away this summer, researchers announced last week. (Source: Coastal Ecology Lab) Okefenokee Joe, a ...

To David Walter Banks, there’s something special about the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. There’s a mystical quality, the photographer says, that’s hard to explain to ...

In my new CFACT Conservation Country report, I investigated this December 2024 Biden-Harris administration policy. Currently, 92 percent of Okefenokee Swamp- or 407,000 acres - is a federally-managed ...