April 15, 2013
Imagine a lost kingdom hidden deep within the ground. A place whose narrow crystal corridors open up to caverns that resemble the great halls of a castle, complete with stalactites hanging like crystal chandeliers, imposing columns that reach to the lofty ceilings, and stalagmites rising like sentinels guarding a land of enchantment. This is a ...
April 8, 2013
Cobras, vipers and rattlers, oh my! Animal World & Snake Farm in New Braunfels, Texas is the perfect place to get a close look at all kinds of snakes and lots of other animals from scorpions and skinks, to monkeys and mountain lions and much more. Unlike those big sprawling zoos that can leave one ...
March 5, 2013
Sharp teeth, claws, bony plates, and tough jaws: Alligators are living fossils that date back about 200 million years to the Cretaceous period, when the Earth was a swampy expanse of forming continents and muggy weather, and where dinosaurs and other animal life thrived among the dense forests and thick vegetation that grew in a ...