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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
the same genetic type as those found as far away as the highlands of Papua, New Guinea

Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
genera of frogmouths exist: one in southeast Asia and the other in Australia and New Guinea

Natural history collections contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disease outbreaks that could turn into a pandemic — but they are an underused resource. Dozens of collections and other experts gathered last year to analyze how to change that and their findings were rece
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Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large tooth sawfishes are most c
Western Indian Ocean through India, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia to New Guinea

Epinephelus amblycephalus These tropical reef fish prefer the deeper rocky reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean. They are classical almond-shaped groupers, with pointed snouts and large, round eyes, a continuous spiny dorsal fin, and a rounded caudal (tail) fin. Usually light brown to pale grey, th
Japan, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, New Guinea

The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
Eastern Atlantic collections from the Gulf of Guinea are available in some abundance

Fontitrygon margarita This smaller, oval-shaped stingray has a pointed snout, and a round, pearl-like tubercular thorn in the very top center of the stingray’s disc. Its tail is slightly longer than its body, thick at the base and whip-like at the end, with one long, serrated venomous spine about
In one study off the coast of Sierra Leone and Guinea, stomach contents of daisy

Bothus lunatus One of the most noticeable features of this flat fish is that both eyes are on one side of its head. But they start out with an eye on either side of their heads like most fish, and their right eye migrates towards the left as they mature. They are experts at camouflage and can qui
eastern Atlantic region, this species resides off Ascension Island and in the Gulf of Guinea

Centroscyllium fabricii This small, dark-colored shark has a stout body, somewhat small fins, and large oval eyes that are reflective green. It has two dorsal fins, each with a strong, sharp spine, and the second fin being somewhat larger than the first. Because they live at the bottom of the con
Gulf of Mexico and in the eastern North Atlantic from Iceland south to Senegal and Guinea

Cephalopholis rogaa These flattened oval-shaped reef fish have angular, slightly concave profiles sloping down to their wide mouths that are red to orange inside. They have a continuous dorsal fin that is somewhat elongated, and a matching elongated anal fin, that trail back towards the short, sq
Islands including Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea