The sea is full of vampires, animals whose sustenance comes from the blood of other animals. We highlight five bloodsuckers fit to give you shivers. Grab some garlic and holy water, and take a look. 1. Totally into you Snails in the family Eulimidae (pronounced YOO’-lee-mee-day) target animals suc
The bulge on this pistol shrimp is small crustacean known as a bopyrid.
Epidemic diseases ravaged both Indians and Spaniards through the seventeenth century. Between 1614 and 1617 friars estimated that nearly half of the Timucua Indians died. Yellow fever became epidemic in 1649, killing Spaniards and Indians alike. A smallpox outbreak occurred in 1655, and killed all
These sturdy locks were used on pistols as well as muskets.
This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on the KAUST Red Sea cruise. You can read more from him at www.naturenoah.com. “Thousands of miles from home, hundreds of miles from our institution, and thirty miles from any solid lan
Michael Berumen of the KAUST Reef Ecology Lab shows off a prize pistol shrimp.
The reduced level of external crown support, and the increasing diversion of resources and activity to the hinterland farms and missions had a negative economic impact on the residents of seventeenth century St. Augustine. Food, clothing and Spanish material goods were increasingly scarce, and resi
fire case with eight powder flasks A carrying case for a ramrod A little pocket pistol
