Mammals include the Striped possum, Daintree river possum, Brown bandicoot, Long nosed bandicoot, Musky Rat Kangaroo, Bennett ’ s Tree Kangaroo, Swamp wallaby, Platypus, and Short beaked echidna.

He was sometimes referred to as the Floridian, before permanently adopting the nickname, " Swamp Rat ," which also became the theme for each generation of his innovative dragster designs.

In 1970, Garlits was driving Swamp Rat XIII, also called the Wynnscharger, a front-engined slingshot rail, when the vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure.

He returned to Pomona in 1971 with Swamp Rat XIV, a brand new mid-engined, front-cockpit rail, also dubbed the " Swamp Rat I-R " by Hot Rod Magazine in the article introducing it to their readers.

Swamp Rat XXX

On October 20, 1987, his Top Fuel dragster, Swamp Rat XXX, the sport's only successful streamlined car, was enshrined in National Museum of American History, a branch of The Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC.

car, " Swamp Rat XXX " was inducted into, and enshrined at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

Swamp Wallaby, Grey-headed Flying Foxes or Fruit Bats, Common Brushtail Possum, Common Ringtail Possum, Water Rat or Rakali, Echidna, Platypus-up river only

* Waterhouse's Swamp Rat, a rodent species from South America

The rail was supplanted by the rear-engined car now standard when Don Garlits introduced Swamp Rat XIV in 1971.

The wetlands support a small variety of native animals consisting of Swamp Rat, Water Rat, snakes and frogs.

More recently, Hempel has produced CD art for the Nashville band Swamp Rat, drawn an episode of the online strip Munden's Bar for ComicMix. com, illustrated a 21-page Escapist story for Dark Horse Comics, and has contributed to both MAD Magazine and Nickelodeon Magazine.

*** Bell Groove-toothed Swamp Rat, Pelomys campanae

*** Creek Groove-toothed Swamp Rat, Pelomys fallax

*** Hopkins's Groove-toothed Swamp Rat, Pelomys hopkinsi

*** Issel's Groove-toothed Swamp Rat, Pelomys isseli

*** Least Groove-toothed Swamp Rat, Pelomys minor

** Genus Dasymys-Shaggy Swamp Rat

*** Cansdale's Swamp Rat, Malacomys cansdalei

*** Edward's Swamp Rat, Malacomys edwardsi

The fictional band's music was done by a real band named " Swamp Baby " with vocals by Dillon.

He was instrumental in the apparent death of Swamp Thing, which jeopardized many lives as the Parliament of Trees attempted to replace him.

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

* Skull Island-This island was attacked by the Swamp Men.

A small but important part of the Strip — the area around present day Toledo and Maumee Bay — fell within the Great Black Swamp, and this area was nearly impossible to navigate by road, especially after spring and summer rainfalls.

Detroit was twenty miles ( 32 km ) up the Detroit River from Lake Erie, and faced the difficult barrier of the Great Black Swamp to the south.

It was in 1896 that the team acquired the nicknames " Swamp Angels " and " Mud Hens " due to the ballpark's proximity to marshlands and waterfowl.

The Great Swamp, formerly located south of the lake, was a rich wetlands habitat important to many species of birds and wildlife.

" He was cremated, and his ashes were buried in the pet cemetery of his estate " The Swamp.

Another important, if dubious, product from the era was Swamp Root, a famous patent medicine developed in the late 19th century.

The film was harshly criticized in the British press in part because of its connection to Francis Marion, a militia leader in South Carolina known as the " Swamp Fox.

Previously, the site was known as William's Chimney and Collett's Swamp.

In the early 19th century, the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike was built ( now Rt 109 ), a straight route built through the Great Black Swamp, and up a large hill in the center of town.

In the period from 1806 to 1810, the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike was built ( now Route 109 ), nearly going broke in attempting to build a causeway over the Charles River at the Medfield town line and through the Great Black Swamp.

The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a " muck-encrusted mockery of a man ".

However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, having somehow absorbed Holland's memory and personality into itself.

Also involved in the conflict was Swamp Thing's close friend-turned-enemy Matthew Cable, a federal agent who mistakenly believed Swamp Thing to be responsible for the deaths of Alec and Linda Holland.

In 1982, DC Comics revived the Swamp Thing series, attempting to capitalize on the summer 1982 release of the Wes Craven film of the same name ( a revival had also been planned for 1978, but was a victim of the DC Implosion ).

Now written by Martin Pasko, the book loosely picked up after Swamp Thing's appearance in Challengers of the Unknown, with the character wandering around the swamps of Louisiana as something of an urban legend that was feared by locals.

Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first mainstream comic book series to completely abandon the Comics Code Authority and write directly for adults.

As Collins had destroyed the status quo of the series, Morrison sought to shake the book up with a four-part storyline which had Swamp Thing plunged into a nightmarish dream-world scenario where he was split into two separate beings: Alec Holland and Swamp Thing, which was now a mindless being of pure destruction.