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During the COVID shutdown this spring, I had more time to observe and photograph insects in my backyard. Here’s a small selection, from fast-flying long-legged and hover flies to slow-crawling caterpillars. See captions for details. May 16, 2020. Fast reflexes. A long-legged fly jumping to the fl
Only bite what you can swallow Coral Trees of Los Angeles and the Moths that Attack

Montbrook keeps on giving with the discovery of our first fossil stork! The fossil found is a tarsometatarsus which is an elongated bone in birds between the foot and lower leg bones. It’s somewhat equivalent to our ankle area but way longer. The discovery was extra exciting because it was made
Seminole Field, and Venice Late Pleistocene- California: Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, Los

After being stored in the Florida Museum of Natural History collections for 20 years, researchers have described a new genus and species of extinct saber-toothed cat from Polk County, Fla., based on additional fossil acquisitions. When the animal was originally named in the 1980s, the study’s aut
to the same lineage as the famous Smilodon fatalis from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los

Steven Manchester didn’t set out to discover Central America’s oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants. Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History, had left a group of vertebrate paleontologists uphill of the Panama Canal to do his own pros
Velez-Juarbe, now assistant curator of marine mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los

A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
who got his start in paleontology while volunteering at the La Brae tar pits in Los

Primary Type Specimens in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Chondrichthyes Osteichthyes Amphibia Reptilia Aves Mammalia Complete reference citations can be found here. Chondrichthyes Eoplinthicus yazooensis Cappetta, H., and G. Stringer. 2002. Tertiary Research 21
Science Series, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 36:258, fig. 4.

The McGuire Center Lepidoptera collection includes a modest number of what are known as „type specimens.“ When researchers name and describe a new species or subspecies of butterfly or moth, they have a set of specimens before them that are closely examined in order write a verbal description and il
HT = holotype, LT = lectotype, LACM = Los Angeles County Museum, MCZ = Museum of

Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
Patrick Krug, professor of biological sciences at California State University, Los

Hidden behind the collection glass, stashed within the compactors, a collection of wild silks lies dormant, ready to be explored by curious minds. Akin to its surrounding neighbors of exotic Lepidoptera specimens, the larva spun, human crafted silk fabrics hail from all around the world. Donated ov
Field Museum, Chicago, and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. 196

Collections Coordinator McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 352-273-2013, Email: asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu Additional appointments: Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Entomology and Nematology Edu
to work, when I spotted a drama unfolding on my window: a green… Coral Trees of Los