These are some good children’s books about sharks. Unfortunately, many children’s books are not scientifically accurate, often unfairly portraying sharks as maniacal killers of humans rather than in the balanced way done in these books. Grade level: K-4 Albee, S. 2007. Sesame Street: Liste
Worth, B. 2013. Hark! A Shark!
Triakis semifasciata This long, slim shark likes the sandy bottoms of bays or estuaries in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It has a broad, short snout, triangular fins, and a notched, asymmetrical caudal (tail) fin. On the dorsal side, it exhibits a silver or bronzed-gray coloration, fading to white u
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Research Freshwater Snails of Florida – A project seeking to identify, illustrate and map all freshwater snails in Florida. PEET: Sea cucumbers on coral reefs, systematics of aspidochirotid holothurians – A project aimed to greatly improve our understanding of aspidochirotid systematics through
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Carcharodon hastalis Quick Facts Common Name: none Teeth of the extinct shark Carcharodon hastalis have been found in most Miocene and Pliocene marine deposits in Florida that produce shark teeth. It is also found in similar age deposits around the world. Long regarded as a member of the m
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Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and inch-long African frogs that spend their entire lives in and around the banks of small puddles. In fact, the title for the
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Archaeohippus blackbergi Quick Facts Common Name: Blackberg’s dwarf horse Archaeohippus is a genus of three-toed horses that lived 19 to 13 million years ago in North America. Two of the five known species lived in Florida. Archaeohippus blackbergi was small, weighing approximately between 5
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Mesoreodon floridensis Quick Facts Common Name: Florida oreodont With six partial skeletons, five with skulls, this is the only well known oreodont from Florida. From the late Eocene to the very early Miocene, oreodonts are extremely common in the western United States, but are relatively r
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The FLAS collection was initially organized under two curatorial styles. The modern collection was kept in envelope-type packets, placed vertically and organized in archival trays. Another part of the collection, encompassing most of the historical collections that date back to the 1800s (Severin Ra
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