For decades, there were few detailed accounts or photos of rare, white-skinned alligators in coastal South Carolina.
But a Clemson University researcher who found six such American alligator hatchlings in the Lowcountry in 2014 has published what is believed to be the most detailed account of such a discovery to date.
Thomas Rainwater was working as a wildlife toxicologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Charleston when he and other biologists found the six rare hatchlings in an undisclosed location in the Lowcountry.
Someone had notified Rainwater and the other researchers after stumbling across them by accident.
For decades, there were few detailed accounts or photos of rare, white-skinned alligators in coastal South Carolina.
But a Clemson University researcher has published what is believed to be the most detailed account of such a discovery to date. https://t.co/lvqLd3v0v6
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