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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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical habitat for a rare species of freshwater mussel once thought to be extinct. The new ruling, which went into effect Aug. 2, outlines protective measures for the Suwannee moccasinshell,
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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

Our biological research initiatives concerning sharks, skates and rays are numerous and diverse, ranging from studies on relative abundance and distribution, to systematics and evolutionary relationships. Diversity of chondrichthyan fishes is a major focus of research at the FPSR, where scientists a
sharks (Genus Hemiscyllium) are distributed in Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea

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
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea

A Fish Tale: Sawfish Fact and Fiction Through History By Carmen Elenberger For years sawfish carried a reputation as a formidable denizen of the deep. Their reputation was spread by writers such as Jules Verne, whose famous Captain Nemo instructed his sailors in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The
sawfish hung on the walls of some German U-boats and American submarines, and in New Guinea