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A Celebration of Museums is a Celebration of Collections – Events

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 The first Collectors Day at the Florida Museum of Natural History was part of our International Museum Day celebration on May 18, 1980. It hosted 20 collections and highlighted the importance of them and museums. Our last Collectors Day in 2020 hosted over 110 collections with 2,100 visitors, conti
“A collection is a cohesive group of items that have special meaning to the person

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Mollusk graveyards are time machines to oceans’ pristine past – Research News

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A Florida Museum of Natural History study shows that mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in marine ecosystems and shifts in ocean biodiversity. Collecting data from the shells of dead mollusks is a low-impact way of glimpsing how oceans looked before pollution, habi
Because mollusks, such as conchs, oysters and mussels, are abundant and often have

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Sandbar Shark – Discover Fishes

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Carcharhinus plumbeus This brownish-gray shark has a recognizably large and triangular dorsal fin and somewhat long pectoral fins. It averages 6 feet long and about 110-150 lbs. True to its name, this shark prefers the sandy bottoms of coastal areas, and is known for seasonal migration like many
Because it has a high fin-to-body weight ratio, the sandbar sharks have been targeted

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Escape artists: Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes – Research News

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The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed and nimbleness, much like a coat of bright yellow paint on a sports car. A new study shows birds can learn to recognize these visual cues, avoiding not only butterflies they’ve failed to nab in the past but similar-looking species as w
€™s a common idea that being distasteful is one of the best kinds of defense to have

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Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator – Florida Museum of Natural History

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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
Choice: Editor’s picks, Nov 2022)           James D, Albaugh D, Cammarata B,

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Pomatodelphis inaequalis – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Pomatodelphis inaequalis Quick Facts Common Name: none Pomatodelphis inaequalis is believed to be a type of river dolphin and likely had a wide salinity tolerance, living in nearshore marine and estuarine environments with the ability to travel up low salinity streams. Because of their sma
Because of their small teeth and weak jaws, the diet of Pomatodelphis inaequalis may have

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Precolumbian Archaeology of the Turks and Caicos Islands – Caribbean Archaeology Program

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Baweka, translated from the Taino language as „Large Northern Basin,“ was the name for the Caicos Bank at the time of Columbus. From Abawana (Grand Turk) to Makobisa (West Caicos) the islands supported a thriving native population on the eve of European conquest. Nestled between the Bahama Islands
Actually, what we have found since is, to me, far more interesting than Columbus’

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