Sawfish Biology – Discover Fishes https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/sawfish/biology/
Let’s look a little closer at sawfish parts, habits, and biology:
Male sawfishes have paired intromittent organs called claspers.
Let’s look a little closer at sawfish parts, habits, and biology:
Male sawfishes have paired intromittent organs called claspers.
There have been two primary reasons for the decline of the smalltooth populations
Research International Shark Attack File Florida Museum Fish Collection There have
Water covers over three-quarters of the earth’s surface. Fish live in this world of water and are the most numerous of the vertebrates, or animals with backbones. There are three major groups of living fish. Superclass Agnatha The first group is the Superclass Agnatha. This group is the most pri
The fish belonging to this group have no jaws.
As you can probably imagine, teaching a virtual museum summer camp is quite different than teaching a traditional in-person camp but challenging times call for rising to the challenge, especially when it comes to creating positive experiences for our campers. And, as it turns out, many nuances of th
I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
About 55 million years ago, a warming event that swept the globe had a profound effect on mammals. A Florida Museum of Natural History study in the December 2010 print edition of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution describes a new species of carnivorous mammal that shrank to about half the size of
that the same thing happened in some carnivores, suggesting that other factors may have
grow to almost 4 feet wide and are quick to retreat when humans approach, but they have
grow to almost 4 feet wide and are quick to retreat when humans approach, but they have
Let’s look a little closer at sharks parts, habits, and biology:
Male sharks have paired intromittent organs called claspers.
I am a Distinguished Professor in the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida. My research interests in plant biology are diverse—we study plant evolution using modern DNA approaches including next generation sequencing methods and the use of “big dat
Working with others, we have reconstructed relationships among major lineages of
Coleman Sheehy, the herpetology collection manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the crocodilian collection, including what species are in it, and how the collection is used. Interview and videos produced by Gage Chancey for Explore Research at the University of Florida.
But nonetheless, we have every single one of those specimens represented — every
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Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have received a three-year, $458,104