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Call it a galactic joy ride, but on Oct. 23, 2007, NASA’s 120th shuttle mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with hundreds of thousands of miniscule stowaways stashed inside the solid rocket boosters, unbeknownst to anyone. Had they hitched their ride on the main shuttle, the gobs of my
The unusual yellow powder led technicians refurbishing the booster rockets to seek

Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s „The Hobbit,“ has a few living relatives. With dense, alligator-like armor, these small, real-life dragon lizards are rock-crevice recluses mostly confined to mountaintops in southern Africa. Now, herpetologists Michael Bates, a curator at South Africa’s
being spiky and inedible, so they don’t have to put up a big fight.� Stanley led

The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn’t headed to the park’s famous recreation spots. It was there for conservation, and the scientists in the lead were towing the precious cargo: tiny green caterpillars. Entering a trail road typica
We’re learning a lot of new things about it.â€� Daniels’ lab, which led the introduction

Scyliorhinus retifer These slim sharks are reddish brown to light yellow underneath, with a distinctive dark brown or black chain pattern down their bodies. They have rounded snouts and large oval eyes, and somewhat lobed fins set further back towards their asymmetrical, notched caudal (tail) fin
This evidence has led biologists to believe that the young are produced during late

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tap into the Florida Museum of Natural History’s grand opening of its new, permanent exhibit, “Water Shapes Florida,” with a celebration March 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This free, family-friendly festival includes hands-on learning activities, workshops, food trucks and more
Led by Ryan Fessenden, the museum’s “Butterfly Rainforest” manager, registered guests

Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine. The find precipitated in-depth fieldwork by archaeologists during the ’70s and ’80s’, yielding discoveries that raised the possibility of the site being Amer
of Youth is what’s drawn people there, and it’s remarkable because that is what led

Quick Facts Common Name: none Enhydritherium terraenovae is a large, extinct otter capable of living in both freshwater and coastal marine habitats. A nearly complete skeleton is on permanent public display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. It was collected at the Moss Acres Racetrack
This led Lambert (1997) to conclude that these fish bones were the stomach contents

Sawfish may look somewhat like sharks, but with wide pectoral fins and flatter bodies, they are actually modified rays. Their rostrum (snout), instead of teeth, has specialized denticles which are a type of scales, that they use to stun and injure small fish before eating them. Smalltooth sawfish gr
This led researchers to propose locations for study that had the highest probability

The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years. The hutia, which resembles a bristly beanbag, flourished in the Bahamas for millennia, the island
paradoxical role in the hutia’s boom-to-bust story, according to a new study led

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts. Researchers recently concluded two pilot studies: one examined the presence of Harris lines, or growth-arrest lines, detectable by radiography in p
Photo by Jeff Gage One study led by Mammalogy Collections Manager Laurie Wilkins