Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Hand

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
audible clicking sound, but we don’t know how they do it; and I can count on my hand

Numerous new arthropods show up in Florida every year with several of them becoming invasive pests that potentially threaten food crops, landscapes, and native habitats. For a new pest to thrive and establish, it needs suitable host(s) and environmental conditions. When these conditions are met, th
The beetle larvae, on the other hand, are much more noticeable but are often mistaken

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
GatorCorps members and UF Gulf Scholar students visited the center to lend a helping hand

New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures and crop fields, can act as a barrier to big-eyed birds, potentially contributing to their decline. Florida Museum of Natural History researchers found strong links between bird eye size, habitat and fora
then clamber over steep ridges and through thick shrubs and bamboo, antenna in hand

The Aucilla River Prehistory Project was an archaeological and paleontological project excavating a particularly rich series of deposits that yielded ancient megafaunal remains in association with Paleoindian artifacts. The Aucilla River flows into the Big Bend area of northwestern Florida. The riv
Larger artifacts and bones are hand collected by the divers.

The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love of freshwater mussels. Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes. But bivalves? Not so much. Yet Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery could not sift through a single bag of material fr
attention to patterns she and Emery had noticed previously, with species names in hand

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
A 1759 account noted that “the fat horses (reach a height) of seven or more hand

Scomberomorus regalis This solitary torpedo-shaped fish is streamlined and strong, with finlets running between the prominent second dorsal and anal fins, and the crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a green-blue from above, and mostly silvery white except for brassy spots and streaks on its sides n
On the other hand, the dark coloration of the cero mackerel’s back blends in with

On Feb. 26, 2023, the Florida Museum of Natural History will officially say goodbye to Powell Hall’s oldest permanent exhibit, Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife. This goodbye comes with many memories and much excitement for a new exhibit, Water Shapes Florida, opening in Spring 2024, that wi
Giving countless hours to hand paint murals and carve out sculptures, we thank everyone

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked the massive predator at about 50 to 60 feet long. The revised estimate is t
Now when a paleontologist unearths a lone megalodon tooth the size of their hand,