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Ohio: Spotted salamander (state amphibian) Ambystoma maculatum: 2010 [19] American bullfrog (state frog) Rana catesbeiana: 2010 [20] Oklahoma: American bullfrog: Rana catesbeiana: 1997 [21] Pennsylvania: Eastern hellbender: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis: 2019 [22] South Carolina: Spotted salamander: Ambystoma maculatum: 1999 [23] Tennessee ...
An early map of the Falls of the Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky is in the lower right. The shallowness of the falls provided a favored crossing point for bison in pre-settlement times and, later, an easy crossing for Native Americans. In 1990, a section of the area in Indiana became the Falls of the Ohio State Park.
In 1995, a single five foot long embolomere amphibian fossil was found in sandstone, near the margin of the Western Kentucky Coal Field. In the Pennsylvanian, shallow seas existed periodically, but the landscape was mostly swampy land. As the supercontinent Pangaea took shape, Kentucky was situated on the equator. Grasses and cordaite trees ...
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. [5] Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around the sulfur springs. [6]
Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge is an 8,040-acre (32.5 km) [2] bottomland hardwood forest in western Kentucky near Benton. The refuge lies along the East Fork of the Clarks River and is the seasonal home to more than 200 species of migratory birds .
Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. New York, USA; AmphibiaWeb. Information on amphibian biology and conservation. (2012). "List of Amphibians in the United States (database query web application)". Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb
The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (ORINWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in non-contiguous sites consisting of islands along 362 miles (583 km) [2] of the Ohio River, primarily (85% of acreage) [3] in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Big Bone Lick settlement shown in 1785 on a map of the Wilderness Road in Kentucky and Tennessee. Big Bone is an unincorporated community in southern Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the west by the Ohio River, and Rabbit Hash, on the south by Big Bone Creek, which empties into the river at Big Bone Landing.