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Absolem, the grumpy caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (in Burton’s recent film adaptation), derived his name from the Hebrew for “handsome” or “persuasive.” While the latter he is, the former he is not, so if the name is Burton’s exercise in irony—it’s misguided; all caterpillars are handsome&#x1
Only bite what you can swallow Coral Trees of Los Angeles and the Moths that Attack

The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone from a frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus, also known as rain frogs or co
Velez-Juarbe, associate curator of marine mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands. The teeth, excavated in northwest Puerto Rico, belong to a previously unknown rodent genus and species, now named Caribeomys merzeraudi. About the size of
Jorge Velez-Juarbe, associate curator of mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los

I-75 Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL018 Location Southwestern Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, at the intersection of Interstate Highway 75 (I-75) and SR 121 (Williston Road); 29.6° N, 82.4° W. Age Early Oligocene Epoch; later half of Whitneyan land mammal
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California. Hayes, F.

R esearchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia’s Calvert Island. The discovery represents the northern-most record of the parasite on the West Coast and is likely an indication of its ability to spread without human transport. Or
shows a sea urchin to Hakai Institute’s Josh Silberg during a 2019 bioblitz in Los

Aepycamelus major Quick Facts Common Name: Leidy’s giraffe camel The giraffe camels of the Miocene of North America and the true giraffes of Africa represent a great example of convergent evolution. It had an estimated shoulder height of at least 13 feet, plus an additional 5 to 6 feet for t
Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum, No. 1, 54 p. Webb, S. D., B. J.

Tapirus polkensis Quick Facts Common Name: Olsen’s dwarf tapir This is the smallest known member of the genus Tapirus. Other „dwarf“ tapirs are known from Europe but are apparently not closely related to Tapirus polkenesis. It is the most abundant mammal at the Gray Fossil Site in eas
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series, Number 41.

Rhizosmilodon fiteae Quick Facts Common Name: Fite’s saber-tooth cat Rhizosmilodon fiteae is a small-sized, saber-toothed cat known only from Florida; but most species of felids have large geographic ranges, so it would not be surprising to find its fossils in other areas of North America.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series, Number 41.

Recently, we conducted a hands-on science event at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Ocala, about an hour south of Gainesville. One of us (Sourakov) already had a talk prepared about moth biology in conjunction with the launch of his 2022 book, The Lives of Moths, so we
Only bite what you can swallow Coral Trees of Los Angeles and the Moths that Attack

The original description of each type in the FLMNH Herpetology Collection is listed here alphabetically by author and year. The actual pages, plates, figures, and tables on which the description appeared are cited rather than the entire publication. Allen, R., and W.T. Neill. 1949. Herpetol
Los Angeles Co. Mus. Contrib. Sci., 65: 1-12, figs. lb, 3.