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On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for overlooking it in favor of Cuba’s prismatic parrots. But looks aren’t everything. For decades, this u
first — albeit extinct — Caribbean bird whose closest relatives are in Africa, New Guinea

In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an unexpected link between Caribbean bird life and the Old World. Like many animals unique to the Caribbean,
the flufftails, flying birds that live in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and New Guinea

iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million specimen records in its online database, offering access to one of the largest virtual collections of life on Earth. Natural history collections w
Now extinct, it was native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

Early Foundations Although established in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History Fish Collection was small and parochial in character until the late 1950s. Leonard Giovannoli served as part-time curator during the 1930s and 1940s while teaching in the University of Florida Department of Bi
surveyed the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas basins, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Guinea

See full directory profile > Research Statement We live at a critical time for biodiversity. The biosphere is undergoing profound alterations as a result of human activities, with a mass extinction erasing much of our biological heritage before it is even documented. My research program is defi
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea

There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America, but only one in the United States and Canada. DNA evidence suggests North America’s sole porcupine belongs to a group that originated 10 million years ago, but
ever set foot on the continent, where they evolved into well-known groups like guinea

The  mammals collection staff and students contribute to museum exhibits and media presentations about research projects, and students regularly do presentations on their works and public outreach.
places, such as Socotra (an island in the Indian Ocean) and the highlands of Papua Guinea

Carcharhinus limbatus This medium sized, stocky shark is dark grey to brown on top transitioning to white underneath. It has characteristically marked black-tipped fins. Blacktip sharks prefer to hunt small schooling fishes, taking out prey as they move quickly through the school, often breac
known as blackfin (Guam, Micronesia, Trinidad and Tobago), black-tipped (Papua New Guinea

Galeocerdo cuvier Tiger sharks are named for their distinctive color pattern. The body is gray with dark gray vertical bars or spots on the flanks with a pale or white underside. The markings are especially distinctive in juveniles but diminish with age. Tiger sharks are among the largest of
tiger sharks are documented from the western Atlantic, Australia, India, Papua New Guinea

Pristis clavata Although sawfish look like sharks, they are actually highly modified rays. The rostral ‚teeth‘ are specialized denticles. The dwarf sawfish is the smallest sawfish species, reaching 3.1 m (10 ft). Very little is known about its behavior. Order – Rhinopristiformes Family – Pris
P. clavata was historically found in New Guinea, Indonesia, and Malaysia, though