A nuclear plant south of Miami found its first crocodile nest in its cooling canals in 1978, when Florida had fewer than 300 of the animals left, and the crew that has worked those canals every summer since has tagged more than 10,000 hatchlings, roughly one in four of the species now alive in the United States

In 1978, a worker at the Turkey Point nuclear plant, on the edge of Biscayne Bay south of Miami, stumbled on something along one of the plant’s cooling canals: a clutch of eggs, buried in the raised dirt bank. They belonged to an American crocodile. At that moment, the American crocodile was one of the […]