Siesta Key Beaches. Siesta Beach is located on Beach Road on Siesta Key. Siesta Beach is known as one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere in the world. At the Great International White Sand Beach Challenge held in 1987, it was recognized as having the whitest and finest sand in the world.. As you can see in the photo below, the sand appears to be snow.
Relict (biology) In biogeography and paleontology a relict is a population or taxon of organisms that was more widespread or more diverse in the past. A relictual population is a population that presently occurs in a restricted area, but whose original range was far wider during a previous geologic epoch.
Definition of relict. 1  1 : widow. 2  2 : a surviving species of an otherwise extinct group of organisms; also : a remnant of a formerly widespread species that persists in an isolated area. 3  3a : a relief feature or rock remaining after other parts have disappearedb : something left unchanged.