Kajikia albida White marlin are the smaller of the billfish, reaching just over 9 feet and 180 pounds. They have a slender bill and their first dorsal fin is high but lobed rather than pointed like the similar blue marlins. They are dark blue on top and silver white with brown spots below, and th
North Atlantic, spawning grounds have been identified northeast of Little Bahama Bank
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It’s pre-dawn. Your camera and lenses are packed, and you’ve pulled yourself out of bed before sunrise for early morning photography. Nature photography takes planning, persistence, patience and grit. But you return home with images you are technically unhappy with. Perhaps they were not exposed pr
Ivan Castillo, a Costa Rican naturalist guide, looks for wildlife on the bank of
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Fossil Vertebrates: Beach and Bank Collecting for Amateurs (Revised Edition).
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects of introduced species. The researchers included more than 5 million measurements from individual
After building up a robust seed bank in the nearby riparian zones, they quickly and
Southeastern Florida Archaeopedology From 1993 to 2007 Florida archaeopedology research was conducted by Sylvia Scudder, now retired. Scudder’s studies employ analyses of chemical and grain-size characteristics to answer questions about site configuration and settlement patterns, environm
and mound periphery and corroborated the particle-size evidence of a sand bar or bank
Squalus acanthias This long, slender dogfish has a pointed snout, large eyes, and spines in front of its two dorsal fins. It is a brownish slate color, fading to a pale underbelly, with rows of white spots down its upper body that fade with age. These migratory, schooling sharks spend winters in
During the spring, they begin their migration north, reaching Georges Bank in March
This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on the KAUST Red Sea cruise. You can read more from him at www.naturenoah.com. “Thousands of miles from home, hundreds of miles from our institution, and thirty miles from any solid lan
fossilized limestone islands and aragonite cays dot the marine landscape of the Farasan Bank
* St. Augustine site numbers follow protocols established by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in 1966, which include the „SA“ city designation, followed by the City of St. Augustine block and lot designations. ACOSTA-VILLALLONGA 8-SA-13-5-6-7 Deagan, Kathleen 1974 Test Excav
First Union Bank Parking Lot 8-SA-10-11 15950 mixed Foreign Legion Hall 8-SA-5-3
How does someone do field science in the age of COVID-19? Your guess is as good as mine. After waiting for more than a year to get outside, the opportunity came in late spring this year at UF’s IFAS Cedar Key Nature Coast Biological Station. Our goals were to tag ten or more baby bull sharks (Carcha
The wake from boats only pushed our skiff and longline closer to the bank.
