Sea snakes give birth in the ocean to an average of 2â9 young, but as many as 34 may be born. The 54 species in subfamily Hydrophiinae belong to 16 different genera. The six species of sea kraits (genus Laticauda) are not as specialized for aquatic life as the true sea snakes.
The August 2017 eclipse will be the first with a path of totality crossing the USA's Pacific coast and Atlantic coast since 1918. Also, its path of totality makes landfall exclusively within the United States, making it the first such eclipse since the country's independence in 1776.
Oh, and by the way, Illinois is also the state that has the most area of the overlap of the paths of totality for the great eclipses of 2017 and 2024! Illinois is also home to the point of greatest duration for this eclipse! According to the US Naval Observatory's eclipse page, there is a point in the Shawnee Nat'l.