Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized and used in various ways by different cultures. Frog toxins are remarkably potent in the human body and may be used to treat heart ailments, infections, cancer, depression, strok
Some native tribes in the rain forests of the Americas use poison from dart frogs to tip blow darts for
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/workshop/
Let’s celebrate March as Florida Archaeology Month with an early kickoff! Join the Florida Public Archaeology Network for this workshop recommended for all ages. How would you put dinner on the table if you were living in prehistoric Florida? Archaeologists look at how artifacts like stone tools ch
Participants will have the opportunity to throw darts with an atlatl and make their own to take home!
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/giant-sea-anemone-eats-ants/
Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat just about anything they can catch and fit into their mouths. In line with this last trait, researchers examining the gut contents of the giant plumose anemon
With concentric rings of sticky tentacles sheathed in a fine mesh of poisoned darts, they harpoon and
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/chaetodon-sedentarius/
Reef Butterflyfish Chaetodon sedentarius This is the more rectangular shaped of the butterfly fish that inhabit the Western Atlantic. It has a black bar down its face and another down the posterior of its body and fins, with yellow on its fins and a yellow tail. Like other butterfly fish, it
The pair circle each other, each fish head to tail until one fish breaks and darts off with the other
Nur Seiten von www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu anzeigen