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Feasting at a Cocoa Beach pizza parlor grease bin gave one northern curly-tailed lizard a record-breaking case of constipation. Mouthfuls of insects, an anole and greasy sand congealed into an unpassable glob of poop nearly 80% of the animal’s total body mass – the largest known feces-to-body-mass r
invasive northern curly tail has successfully established populations from Key West

Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle. Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for small mammals, Hysterangium bonobo is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the
Georgiev tracked a group of wild bonobos through the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve to

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Vol. 2, No. 7: September 2012 Fascinated by paleontology Getting to know wild

Anoxypristis cuspidata Although sawfish look similar to sharks, they are actually highly modified rays. The ‚teeth‘ on the rostrum, snout, are actually enlarged specialize denticles. The narrow sawfish differs from other sawfish species as it lacks rostral teeth at the base of the rostrum. Ord
globally banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild

The Silk Cotton or Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] is one of the largest trees in the American tropics. The tree has played an important role in the spiritual and economic lives of the peoples who live in the circum-Caribbean region. The Ceiba is a rapidly growing deciduous tree that
in 1526, were both impressed by the size of the canoes that the Indians in the West

Hurricanes are synonymous with the Florida experience. And for some reason, so are flamingos. They’re rare in most parts of our state, so a lone flamingo circling above a local lake this week had the birders squawking. These tall wading birds prefer coastal areas where they sieve tiny invertebrat
Wild flamingos don’t frequently set foot in Florida, but when they do, they tend

Antennarius multiocellatus This oddly-shaped, solitary fish is capable of camouflaging itself against the coral it lives near. It ‚walks‘ on its fins, and will wiggle its illicium (the first spine of its dorsal fin) like an angler with bait to lure in prey. The longlure is voracious and can swall
The species is a delight to see in the wild, but it takes a very good observer to

Thanks to the FLMNH Travel Award, in early December I found myself on my way to my first ever British Ecological Society annual meeting in Liverpool, UK. It’s surprising that it was my first BES, given that I’m a British ecologist. Perhaps equally surprising, considering my love of the Beatles (and
very own Priyanka Hariharan presented an excellent talk about the birds of India’s Western

Pristis clavata Although sawfish look like sharks, they are actually highly modified rays. The rostral ‚teeth‘ are specialized denticles. The dwarf sawfish is the smallest sawfish species, reaching 3.1 m (10 ft). Very little is known about its behavior. Order – Rhinopristiformes Family – Pris
P. clavata has been recorded in the Pentecost River, Western Australia, as far as

On February 9th, 1981, Arthur C. Allyn, Jr. signed an agreement transferring the assets and collections of the Allyn Museum to the University of Florida Foundation to ultimately be housed in a new wing of what was then called the Florida State Museum. The Allyn Museum, located in Sarasota, Florida,
Checkerspots and other Brush-footed butterflies Microlepidoptera Zoomed-on Micros Wild