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Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S. Florida Museum of Natural History scientists used DNA testing to identify the specimen as the Rio Ca
“Very little is known about these animals in the wild, but there’s nothing particularly

S cientists have described a new native Hawaiian land snail species, sounding a rare, hopeful note in a story rife with extinction. Pacific island land snails are among the world’s most imperiled wildlife, with more recorded extinctions since 1600 than any other group of animals. Hawaii’s once
“There are so many things in our collection that we can no longer find in the wild

See all Environmental Archaeology Science Research Articles Other Media Outlets How turkeys got from Mayan temples to your Thanksgiving dinner table The Washington Post November 25, 2015 Washington Post: Maya Turkeys and Thanksgiving Beyond the temples, ancient bones reveal the lives of the
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As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
butterflies in the U.S., has a few remaining populations restricted to the Key West

Carcharhinus acronotus Blacknose sharks get their name from the dark blotch on the tip of their snout which often fades on older adults. This shark has a streamlined shape and matures to just over 4 feet long. It feeds on smaller fish and sometimes octopus, and falls prey to larger sharks. When c
When confronted in the wild, the blacknose shark might take a defensive posture,

Bulletin of the Allyn Museum The Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (ISSN-0097-3211) is a peer-reviewed intermittent publication of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. The Bulletin was originally published by
Checkerspots and other Brush-footed butterflies Microlepidoptera Zoomed-on Micros Wild

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
recent example is a large butterfly that used to be known as Pseudodebis celia from western

What Is Palynology? Palynology is the study of plant pollen, spores and certain microscopic plankton organisms (collectively termed palynomorphs) in both living and fossil form. Botanists use living pollen and spores (actuopalynology) in the study of plant relationships and evolution, while geologi
Wildflower, North America’s Magazine of Wild Flora, volume 10, number 3, pages 24

Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat just about anything they can catch and fit into their mouths. In line with this last trait, researchers examining the gut contents of the giant plumose anemon
In the past, the most common way to determine what marine animals ate in the wild

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribb
Small noted that the Key tree cactus “was for a long time very abundant [on Key West