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Stoplight Parrotfish – Discover Fishes

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Sparisoma viride This colorful reef fish has an elongated body with a bluntly rounded face and an elaborately curved crescent tail fin. It goes through significant color changes through the three major phases of its life, but it retains its large, plate-like scales and its beak-like mouth. These
Photo courtesy Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Common english names

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Shark bites consistent with recent trends, with small spike in fatalities – Research News

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There was an increase in the number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide and an uptick in fatalities in 2023 compared to the previous year. The University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File (ISAF), a scientific database of global shark attacks, confirmed 69 unprovoked bites in 2023. Altho
Photo by ingorogalla, CC-BY-NC Along the banks of the Red Sea in Egypt, an encounter

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Florida Museum fossils go to space – Research News

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The recent launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set a record for the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line, the boundary 62 miles overhead that separates Earth’s atmosphere from everything beyond it. It was the fi
Nomenclaturally apropos snail hitches a ride Portell, a restaurant manager turned banker

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Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Defining taxon: first appearance of Bison south of 55° N latitude (Bell et al., 2004) Basis of name: Rancho la Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, California The Rancholabrean NALMA is represented by several thousand individual vertebrate fossil sites distributed from Alaska to Central America. There
From the beds and banks of many rivers and spring runs. 2.

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Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years at the Florida Museum of Natural History – Research News

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In 1977, Bruce MacFadden accepted a curatorial position with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Since then, he has transformed the museum and made significant contributions to the fields of paleontology and science education. Now, after 47 years, MacFadden
developed and oversaw during his career was a series of fossil excavations along the banks

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Epaulette Shark – Discover Fishes

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Hemiscyllium ocellatum This carpet shark is a long, slender shark that tends to be creamy or brown with small dark spots (Compagno 2005). They often forage for food in tidal pools and risk being stranded, but they can survive for up to an hour without any oxygen (Stenslokken et al., 2004) and eve
One synonym, Squalus oculatus Banks & Solander 1827, has appeared in past scientific

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After routing de Soto, Chickasaws repurposed Spanish objects for everyday use – Research News

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Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de Soto’s 16th-century expedition through the Southeast. Many of the objects were repurposed by the resident Chickasaws as household tools and ornaments, an unusual practice at a time
He succumbed to a fever on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1542, and his remaining

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Shortfin Mako – Discover Fishes

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Isurus oxyrinchus The shortfin mako is considered the fastest shark in the world, able to reach burst swimming speeds of up to 43 mph (70 km h-1) (Diez et al. 2015). This classically shaped shark is hydrodynamically efficient with a pointed snout, triangular dorsal fin and large and a crescen
North America, it ranges from California to Chile in the Pacific and from the Grand Banks

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Smalltooth Sawfish – Discover Fishes

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Pristis pectinata The sawfish derives its name from its elongated, blade-like snout, that is studded with „teeth“. While they look similar to sharks, they are actually highly derived rays. The smalltooth sawfish is one of five species of sawfishes found worldwide. Historically, the species had a
subadult and adult sawfish transition to deeper and more saline waters, including mud banks

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Ichetucknee River – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Ichetucknee River University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Localities CO001, CO028, CO031, CO042, CO043, CO044, CO045, CO046, CO053, CO063, CO064, CO065, CO066, CO067, CO068, CO069, CO081, CO086, and CO087 Location The river is about 4.1 miles (6.7 km) northwest of Fort White, Columbia-Suwannee co
The primary, undisturbed, fossil-bearing unit found along the banks of the river

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