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Bham Now’s most popular nature stories in 2017

Cahaba Lily Black Warrior River — Cahaba Lilies on the Black Warrior River – Cahaba Lily (Hymenocallis coronaria), in the Black Warrior River prior to its impoundment, Squaw Shoals, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 4 June 1913. Photograph by Roland Harper, from the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.

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Bham Now Nature Roundup for the week of December 28

Flowers — Alabama Canebrake found only in Alabama, photo by Chuck Byrd, The Nature Conservancy of Alabama

Welcome to the Bham Now Nature Roundup for the week of December 28.

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Meet the intermediate musk turtle, Alabama’s newest turtle species

Photo of an Intermediate musk turtle’s stunning carapace by John Trent via Facebook

Peter Scott, a post doctoral scholar at UCLA, who received his PhD at the University of Alabama was not trying to discover a new species of turtle.

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