Their mission? To extract an ice core from a polar ice cap and inspect its geological markers for climate change indicators.
Using the controller, they grabbed a hand ice auger, bored it into the compacted
Freshwater fishes in Florida are getting a close-up 60 years in the making. Florida Museum of Natural History ichthyologists have written a new book, “Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida,� to describe the freshwater and saltwater species found in Florida’s lakes, rivers and streams. The
you don’t have as good of a chance of identifying the animal that you have at hand
Carcharhinus porosus This slim, plain gray shark has a wide, triangular dorsal fin, and grows usually to just over 3 feet long. With its long, pointed snout and large eyes, it is well suited to the muddy bottoms of estuaries where it prefers to hunt small fish and invertebrates. because if its si
Smalltail shark dentition: upper and lower teeth from left-hand side.
Sea cucumbers are among the most abundant animals on the planet, occupying waters from the tropical reefs to the Antarctic and dominating the greatest habitat – the deep sea floor. But their diversity and ecological roles are poorly understood. To make matters worse, these loaf-like, bottom-dwell
easy to catch – they don’t move around very much, so you can just put your hand
The results of a yearlong science program show that one of the best ways to instill a lasting interest in science among children is to engage them alongside their family members. This finding runs counter to the current framework, in which children attend science-related summer camps and after-schoo
in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM), giving families first-hand
More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida’s Gulf Coast to bond over oysters, likely as a means of coping with climate change and social upheaval. Archaeologists’ analysis of present-day Roberts Island, about 50 miles north of
Researchers hand-excavated, screened and analyzed animal remains from Crystal River
As the year comes to a close, winter begins to cool the northern hemisphere, and we enter the holiday season (#fishmas). Even here in Florida, the air has turned “cold�, as evident by the iguanas falling out of trees. In honor of the season, we wanted to highlight the sharks that have mastered the c
Photo courtesy NOAA Porbeagles (Lamna nasus), on the other hand, can raise their
It was a chilly February day. A handful of Florida teachers gathered on the edge of a dirt pit in rural Levy County. Wind whipped across the open landscape, toying with scarves and making the little flags scattered around the pit dance on their long stems. Florida’s weak winter sunlight was sharp in
These hand-chosen teachers were here to dig for fossils as part of a professional
A hallmark of complex human societies is the existence of surplus foods. Surplus foods enable people, past and present, to spend time on things other than producing food. Mullet, especially the striped mullet (Mugil cephalus), because of their predictable, mass-schooling behavior and preser
Since about 1990, many volunteers hand-collected and cleaned all animal bones, including
More than 250 years ago, enslaved Africans risked their lives to escape English plantations in Carolina and find freedom among the Spanish living at St. Augustine. Battling slave catchers and dangerous swamps, they helped establish the first American underground railroad more than a century
ceramics, and glass bottles; food items such as burned seeds and bone, and even a hand-made
