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Lepidoptera Conference at the McGuire Center – McGuire Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2023/10/lepidoptera-conference-at-the-mcguire-center/

Two societies for studying Lepidoptera, the Southern Lepidopterists’ Society and the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera combined their annual meetings and gathered at the McGuire Center 13-15 October 2023. More than 50 people attended and enjoyed a variety of Lepidoptera talks and posters by socie
Richard Brown (Mississippi State University) and David

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Cynoscion nebulosus – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/cynoscion-nebulosus/

Spotted Seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus Despite their name, these are not trout, but are in the drum fish family, named from the croaking, drumming noise they can make. The spotted seatrout have elongated, silvery bodies with irregular black spots on the upper half, and can grow to 39 inches lo
commercial harvest occurs in the waters of Louisiana, Mississippi

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Hungry for hutia? Our taste for Bahamas’ ‘most peaceable rodent’ shaped its diversity – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/our-taste-for-bahamian-hutia-shaped-rodents-diversity/

The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years. The hutia, which resembles a bristly beanbag, flourished in the Bahamas for millennia, the island
Urbana-Champaign, Ryan Folk of the Florida Museum and Mississippi

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Coastal forests retreat as sea levels rise – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/coastal-forests-retreat-as-sea-levels-rise/

That sea levels are rising is hardly new news–they have been doing so since the end of the last major glaciation some 18,000 years ago. The current rate of rise, a little more than a tenth of an inch per year, is also not that unusual–6,000–8,000 years ago the seas were often rising 10 times faster.
limestone platform and not on subsiding mucks like in the Mississippi

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Archosargus probatocephalus – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/archosargus-probatocephalus/

Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus This flat, oval fish has dorsal and anal fins that are rounded towards the slightly forked caudal (tail) fin, and its greenish-silver body is striped with five or six dark vertical bars. It grows to almost 30 inches and 22 pounds eating invertebrates, s
sheepshead in mid-Atlantic coastal waters and the Mississippi

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Pan-American Ceramics Project at SEAC 2023 – Ceramic Technology Lab

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/blog/pan-american-ceramics-project-at-seac-2023/

As a junior scholar in the field and a new researcher in the US Southeast, I was thrilled to receive support from the FLMNH Directors Office and the Department of Natural History to attend my first Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) in Chattanooga, TN. My conference participation involved
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Florida Museum ichthyologist receives prestigious Gibbs Award – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florida-museum-ichthyologist-receives-prestigious-gibbs-award/

Florida Museum of Natural History research associate William F. Smith-Vaniz recently received the most prestigious award available to researchers of the diversity and evolutionary relationships of fishes. The Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology from th
“I grew up in the Mississippi Delta where hunting and

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Making sense of the past for a better future – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/making-sense-of-the-past-for-a-better-future/

A few miles from Lake Okeechobee, the ancient village site known as Fort Center lies on the shore of Fisheating Creek as it snakes through the area and blends with the wet prairie landscape of South Florida. It is here, deep in muck at the bottom of a man-made pond, that archaeologists in the 1960s
She previously worked at Poverty Point near the Mississippi

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