Seminole Field University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PI004 Location Along banks of Joes Creek (labeled Saint Joes Creek on Google Maps) and its tributaries; about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of downtown St. Petersburg and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida; 27
Fossil man and Pleistocene vertebrates in Florida.
Atractosteus spatula These elongated torpedo-shaped ‚living fossils‘ have long, broad snouts with two rows of sharp teeth in their mouths. Their scales are heavy and overlapping like chain mail, and their small fins are set far back near their abbreviated, irregular caudal (tail) fin. They genera
However, there is no documentation of attacks on man by alligator gars.
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
Completely unnerved, the man abandoned poaching instead.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects of introduced species. The researchers included more than 5 million measurements from individual
Iwasaki Tsunemasa (1786-1842), from „Honzo Zufu“ CC0 Franklin shipped the seeds to a man
Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de Soto’s 16th-century expedition through the Southeast. Many of the objects were repurposed by the resident Chickasaws as household tools and ornaments, an unusual practice at a time
A shrewd man with a reputation for bloodshed, de Soto was previously a key figure
Conservation-Oriented References on Sharks compiled by: George H. Burgess Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Applegate, S.P., Soltelo-Macias, F. and Espinosa-Arrubarrena, L. 1993. An overview of Mexican shark fisheries, with suggestions for shark
Youth, H.M. 1992. Shark-Eating Man. World Watch 5 (2): 7-9.
Before the summer of 1916, there was still debate about whether sharks could kill humans. Most people were not even sure if a shark could bite a human. One of them was New York multimillionaire Hermann Oelrichs, who offered a $500 reward in 1891 for anyone who proved a shark attacked a human. Tha
teasing headlines or broadcasts that tell consumers about shark-infested waters or man-eating
Barbourofelis loveorum Quick Facts Common Name: Loves’ false sabercat Barbourofelis loveorum is an extinct sabertoothed carnivore that weighed approximately 150 lbs, or about the size of a modern jaguar. It is believed that the Barbourofelis loveorum preferred a thickly wooded habitat, and
the suffix –i is added to form a species name only if it is based on a single man
A Fish Tale: Sawfish Fact and Fiction Through History By Carmen Elenberger For years sawfish carried a reputation as a formidable denizen of the deep. Their reputation was spread by writers such as Jules Verne, whose famous Captain Nemo instructed his sailors in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The
Apart from a suspicious account of a man being sawn in half by a sawfish in eighteenth
Isurus oxyrinchus The shortfin mako is considered the fastest shark in the world, able to reach burst swimming speeds of up to 43 mph (70 km h-1) (Diez et al. 2015). This classically shaped shark is hydrodynamically efficient with a pointed snout, triangular dorsal fin and large and a crescen
The shortfin mako was featured prominently in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and
