From: Montbrook Fossil Dig Blog The spring dig season at Montbrook is in full swing, and many scientists, students and volunteers are excited about their finds. Check in at the Montbrook blog… Look over the available dig dates… Some Highlights Topics in Field Geology Course: D
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You might think those fierce cactus spines are just to protect them from being eaten. But our biologist, Lucas Majure, knows a lot about cacti and can tell us much more about these unusual plants. He studies succulent plants and has been fascinated by how a variety of cactus species thrive in challe
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With so many people on Zoom calls lately, why not try a virtual background image from the Florida Museum? We’ve got a selection of practical graphics and beautiful scenes from our iconic exhibits. Click on any image below to view at full size, then right-click to download the file. New backgro
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Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in an unassuming brown or beige color, while others stand out in varied palettes with everything from neon pinks to electric blues. They’re called ribbon worms, and about 1,350 different species have
This was the first survey accompanied by DNA sequencing of ribbon worms off the coast
Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s „The Hobbit,“ has a few living relatives. With dense, alligator-like armor, these small, real-life dragon lizards are rock-crevice recluses mostly confined to mountaintops in southern Africa. Now, herpetologists Michael Bates, a curator at South Africa’s
It resembles S. barbertonensis, another species in the Smaug genus, but DNA analysis
Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
Using DNA, Freitas and his colleagues show there are at least 70 Euptychiina genera
More than three centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a largely self-funded scientific expedition to document the animals and plants of Dutch Suriname. Born in Germany in 1647, Merian was a profe
The discovery of a second specimen and DNA barcoding confirmed the butterfly was
Many folks seem to be under the mistaken impression that a herbarium is a place where herbs are grown. Actually, it’s a collection of plant specimens preserved, labeled and stored in an organized manner that facilitates access. You can think of it as a library of dried plant specimens used fo
lichens in archival paper packets, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, DNA
Are there too many jellyfish in the oceans lately? What’s going on and how can we fix this? TED-Ed talked with Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones about the abundance of jellyfish, what effect it has on humans, and how leatherback sea turtles can help keep them in check. https://www.youtu
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Hedylidae, commonly known as American Moth-butterflies, is a small, little-known family of Lepidoptera. This tropical family, restricted to Central and South America, includes only one genus, Macrosoma, with 36 species. Their common name alludes to their close relationships to butterflies as well as
In 2018, the Kawahara lab and collaborators conducted in-depth DNA analyses of this
