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Whitetip Reef Shark – Discover Fishes

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Triaenodon obesus The Whitetip Reef Shark is a smaller, greyish brown shark with a distinctive white tip on its dorsal and caudal fins. (Compagno, 2005) It prefers caves and coral reefs, often be found resting by the bottom of the ocean by day and hunting by night (Compagno, 2005). Unlike many sh
The shark has a naturally placid nature to where they can be hand-fed (Fitzpatrick

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Thorny Skate – Discover Fishes

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Amblyraja radiata These cool-water skates have rounded diamond shaped pectoral disks with stout tails, usually muddy brown on top, and white underneath. They are named for the scattered thorny denticles along their spines, edges of pectoral fins, and tails, interspersed with smaller ‚prickles‘. T
Males, on the other hand, lose most of the thorns on the pectoral fins except along

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Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections – Research News

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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,
To find them, biologists have to slowly sift through sediment by hand.

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Tremarctos floridanus – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Tremarctos floridanus Quick Facts Common Name: Florida spectacled bear Much more common as a fossil in Florida than the living black bear. Thought to be primarily a herbivore like the living South American spectacled bear. Sometimes called the „Florida cave bear“ but they are not clos
Ursine bears, on the other hand, have only one masseteric fossa (Figure 2B) on their

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Southeastern Florida Archaeopedology – Environmental Archaeology

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Southeastern Florida Archaeopedology From 1993 to 2007 Florida archaeopedology research was conducted by Sylvia Scudder, now retired. Scudder’s studies employ analyses of chemical and grain-size characteristics to answer questions about site configuration and settlement patterns, environm
east coast of the Gulf of Mexico (Figure 5-1), features monumental earthworks, hand-dug

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Hemphillian North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Defining taxon: first appearance of the ground sloth Pliometanastes (Tedford et al., 2004) Basis of name: Wood et al. (1941) based the name on what they termed the “Hemphill member of the Ogallala [Formation].� This stratigraphic unit was originally named the “Hemphill Beds� by Reed and Longnecke
Hemingfordian Florida Fossil Permits Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Articulated left hand

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Life in Seagrasses – South Florida Aquatic Environments

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Many species live in seagrasses: Bacteria and Fungi Bacteria and fungi are responsible for the decomposition of dead seagrass blades. Microfauna and meiofauna colonize the dead seagrass blades, feeding on the bacteria and fungi as well as on the dissolved organic matter released from the decompo
On the other hand, species occurring over seagrasses only during the day include

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People – Ceramic Technology Lab

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Faculty and Staff Dr. Andrea Torvinen, Collections Manager Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA E-mail: a.torvinen@ufl.edu https://florida.academia.edu/AndreaTorvinen Andrea is the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology L
modern specimens, she learned how to recognize the characteristic markers of these hand-built

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Panthera onca – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Panthera onca Quick Facts Common Name: jaguar Fossils of jaguars in Florida are much more common than those of other contemporaneous large felids, such as the American lion and the sabertooths Smilodon fatalis and Dinobastis serus. The Pleistocene jaguars of North America were much large
On the other hand, the association of Panthera atrox with plains-adapted animals

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Teleoceras proterum – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Teleoceras proterum Quick Facts Common Name: Archer short-legged rhino The mounted skeleton on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History (see image) was constructed as part of a „live“ public display during the late 1970s using fossils from both the McGehee Farm and Love Bone Bed loc
On the other hand, further study resulted in some evidence that the isotopes in the

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