Articles for tag: coastal habitats, Florida Wildlife, Indian River Lagoon, Marine Life

two gray seal underwater

Animals That Thrive in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon

Suhail Ahmed

  At first glance, Florida’s looks like a calm, flat slash of water wedged between barrier islands and the Atlantic. Look closer, though, and it becomes something far stranger and more dramatic: a liquid crossroads where tropical and temperate species collide, where manatees graze alongside seagrass meadows, and where microscopic plankton quietly shape the fate ...