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
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
By his mid-20s, Keith Reeves had traveled the world. When he settled in Florida in the 1960s, however, it was in many ways an alien place: No ancient monuments like the pyramids he climbed in Egypt or mountains like those on South Pacific islands where he lived as a “Navy brat,” but a wet-hot, often
of nature and life possessed by native peoples was superior to what the ‘white man
History of the United States Endangered Species Act Conservation efforts to save species of plants and animals from extinction began in the early 1900s. A species of plant or animal is considered extinct when there are no living members of that group found alive anywhere on Earth; in other words, a
mechanisms existing today to protect the species; or If there are any other natural or man-made
After the Spanish exodus St. Augustine was repopulated by British soldiers, planters and loyalists from the other English American colonies. The population of St. Augustine grew dramatically after the beginning of the American revolution, as British loyalists fled to Florida, which was one of the fe
These 18th century paintings show the traditional dress of a man and a woman of Minorca
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
Shark-Eating Man. World Watch 5 (2): 7-9.
Vero Canal Site, Stratum 2 University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality IR005 Location The site is located within the City of Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, to the southeast of the municipal airport. 27.65º N; 80.40º W. Age Late Pleistocene Epoch; late Rancholabrean land
The Old Vero Man Site (8IR009): current Investigations suggest Pleistocene human
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
2 & 3, Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Casino Royale (2006), Iron Man
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
Lamna ditropis These sharks are often mistake for white sharks because they look very similar, but the salmon shark is dark blue-gray to black over most of its body, except for its pale underside which often has dark blotches on it that the white sharks do not. They can get to 10 feet long (almos
Danger to Humans The salmon shark is generally viewed as potentially dangerous to man
