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With an area about the size of Arizona, Ecuador seems small when compared to other South American countries, such as Argentina or Brazil. But what it lacks in land, it makes up in biodiversity. Deemed one of 17 “megadiverse” countries by Conservation International, Ecuador has the highest con
agricultural expansion, petroleum production and a lack of ecological awareness have

Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s „The Hobbit,“ has a few living relatives. With dense, alligator-like armor, these small, real-life dragon lizards are rock-crevice recluses mostly confined to mountaintops in southern Africa. Now, herpetologists Michael Bates, a curator at South Africa’s
of their energy and effort into simply being spiky and inedible, so they don’t have

When you think of zombies, if you do, you probably envision the movie Night of the Living Dead, with its decomposing bodies escaping from their tombs to march though the darkness in slow, unstoppable formations eager to capture the living. But, not surprisingly, this is a Hollywood image that bears
The symptoms of puffer poisoning have been described by Dr. Bruce W.

In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the coast of the Florida Keys and scoured the ocean floor for sea urchins. Telltale tracks and dimples in the sediment alerted them to the presence of sand dollars, sea biscuits and h
Florida Keys suggests that sand dollars, heart urchins and sea biscuit populations have

Doug and Pam Soltis of the Florida Museum of Natural History were recognized last month as being in the top 1% of highly cited researchers. This year’s list, which was curated and published by the analytical organization Clarivate, lauded researchers from around the world whose work has significantl
The Soltises have collectively published more than 600 scientific papers that have

There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America, but only one in the United States and Canada. DNA evidence suggests North America’s sole porcupine belongs to a group that originated 10 million years ago, but
Some paleontologists think they may have evolved just 2.5 million years ago, at the

Middle Archaic in the Greater Southeast and Northeast Florida By Kenneth E. Sassaman, May 2001 Until recently, the Middle Archaic period of ca. 8000 to 5000 years ago was regarded by archaeologists as a time of small, mobile, hunter-gatherer populations whose cultural differences could be explaine
In some cases the change may have entailed permanent settlement of riverine sites

Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and inch-long African frogs that spend their entire lives in and around the banks of small puddles. In fact, the title for the
Pinson • June 16, 2022 Brachycephalus frogs are so small, they appear to have

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

Pamela Soltis, a curator and distinguished professor of molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the museum’s Genetic Resource Repository, including its history and impact on research. Soltis, who also is a member of the UF Genetics Institut
purpose of housing DNA samples, RNA samples, and frozen tissues so that we could have