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Atlantic Devil Ray – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/atlantic-devil%20ray/

Mobula hypostoma This smaller eagle ray looks like its cousins, with its diamond-shaped pectoral disc that is twice as wide as it is long, and its dark gray black top and ivory white underside. But the Atlantic devil ray is smaller, growing to only about 48 inches wide, and its long tail lacks a
horns, a characteristic so distinct that it could not be confused with anything else

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New data platform illuminates history of humans’ environmental impact – Research News

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The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal bones, shells, scales and antlers at archaeological sites. Together, these specimens tell the millennia-long story of how humans have hunted, domesticated and transported animals,
In that way, ZooArchNet is more of a bridge than anything else, but it does that

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Shark bites tied for 10-year low in 2022 but spiked in regional hotspots – Research News

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The number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide decreased last year, tying with 2020 for the fewest number of reported incidents in the last 10 years. According to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File, there were a total of 57 unprovoked bites in 2022, most of which occurred
highest number of bites, and Florida again had more reported bites than anywhere else

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Publishing ichthyologist’s life’s work on cusk-eels – Research News

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For Florida Museum of Natural History collection manager Rob Robins, biodiversity is something of a family theme. With his father a renowned ichthyologist, his mother an ichthyologist who sacrificed career for family and his wife a wildlife biologist, Robins has always been surrounded with th
“This was a group of fish that turned me on at some point and nobody else was working

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New Smyrna fieldwork: Part 3 – Florida Program for Shark Research

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Several days later, the ash had blown away, and we got another opportunity to search for the existing receivers with the beach safety officers. This time the captain himself brought us and two divers out on the official beach safety patrol boat. This boat was built for two things, speed, and surf. J
Those numbers aren’t necessarily high for NSB, but compared to anywhere else, they

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Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct – Research News

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Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis of museum specimens. Misidentified by its original collectors, the lichen is only known from 32 specimens collected in North and Central Florida scrubland between 1885 and 1985. Now the hunt is on to find it in th
“I knew we had these specimens, but I just thought everybody else knew,� Kaminsky

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A natural history of the Red Sea and the uncertain future of its corals – Research News

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Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They’d flown into the local airport from Guam, the United States, Portugal, Spain and Japan, and they’d soon rendezvous with colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST
much as 14% of the Red Sea’s corals, fishes and mollusks can be found nowhere else

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Glaucia Del-Rio joins the Florida Museum of Natural History as curator of ornithology – Research News

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Last week, Glaucia Del-Rio officially stepped into her role as curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. She replaces retired curator David Steadman, who held the position between 1995 and 2021. Del-Rio was raised in São Paulo, Brazil, a sprawling urban complex with high-ri
began looking for it all over the São Paulo state and couldn’t find it anywhere else

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Fossil-digging volunteers strengthen Museum collections – Research News

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For a few weeks each year, dozens of people stop their everyday activities to put on clothes they don’t mind getting dirty, drive to the middle of nowhere and dig in the dirt and mud for fossils. Neither professional archaeologists nor paleontologists, the volunteers are like angels for the Flori
He was instructed to work in an area away from the spot where everyone else was finding

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Randell Research Center teams up with GatorCorps and Gulf Scholars to tackle climate change on Pine Island, Florida – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/randell-research-center-teams-up-with-gatorcorps-and-gulf-scholars-to-tackle-climate-change-on-pine-island-florida/

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
mental and physical toll,� she said. “When you see people coming from somewhere else

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