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At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one too many rounds. But the deep gash in its forehead studded with blue spikes is a natural feature whose function remains a mystery. Discovered by Florida Museum of Natural History researche
“He probably knew more about Thung Yai than anyone else.

Tooth Morphology & Glossary Common questions about modern and fossil shark teeth
Why do we only find shark’s teeth and not much else in the fossil shark record?

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, and if that seems like an odd pairing, there’s a reason why. Today, there
Long after their ground-dwelling relatives had gone extinct everywhere else, two

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.
Nowhere else in the Caribbean have the bones of sea turtles been found in such abundance

Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of its nose. Some of the discoveries being made at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s new dig site in Williston, Florida, are odd and seemingly out of place, to say the least. Animal
The museum scientists have opened the site to UF students and anyone else over 15

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the „Ancient Floridians“ chapter of „Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,“ by Jerald T. Milanich, published by University Press of Florida in 1998. Since at least the 1920s, residents of Florida have been finding Indian artifacts
What else have we learned about them?

Collections data provided by the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Florida Museum of Natural (FLMNH) either through the web catalog or via data files are subject to the following usage conditions: 1. These data are copyright protected by the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Florida Mus
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Elizabeth “Liz� Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than a decade after the school began accepting women. As a master’s student with an incurable curiosity for “anything that cracked or crawled,� Wing was interested in animal anatomy a
there’s no difference in the quality of a woman’s research as opposed to anyone else

To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself. In fact, it’s pretty much one and the same. When you finish your chicken dinner, your next step is most likely to toss the leftover bones in the garbage. And if you hunt, you probably
What else would you do with old bones, right?

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve learned just about everything about them by now. But talk to a marine biologist, and they will quickly
greatest number of endemic species — those that can be found in one region and nowhere else