Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Amazon

Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that won first place in the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest competition. The winners were announced Friday, Nov. 15 at a summit held in Rio de Janeiro. More than $7 million was awar
challenging and thrilling experience to run a full molecular lab in the middle of the Amazon

A new University of Florida study describes a 16-foot, 900-pound ancient species of crocodilian that swam in the same rivers as Titanoboa 60 million years ago in the world’s oldest-known rain forest. The newly named reptile, which has an unusually blunt snout for species in the dyrosaurids fa
A. balrogus was ecologically very similar to crocodiles in the Amazon today, while

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
“Southeast Asia is probably second only to the Amazon in terms of fish diversity,

Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this snake was the top predator in the world’s first tropical rainforest. It was also the largest known predator on the planet between the extinction of dinosaurs 65 milli
History Additional Information Read: At 45 feet long, ‘Titanoboa’ snake ruled the Amazon

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
The Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris, lives in Central America and the Amazon

One of the richest butterfly radiations in the Neotropical lowlands is the nymphalid satyrine subtribe Euptychiina, which is also one of the three most poorly studied groups of ‘true butterflies’ (Papilionoidea). In fact, few other animal groups that are so taxonomically challenging are as speciose,
Amazon, where 100 species can coexist (Lamas et al., 1991; Brown, 1996), while the

Globally acclaimed artist and beloved Florida Museum of Natural History collaborator Naziha Mestaoui passed away on April 29. She was 44 years old. Mestaoui’s interactive, grand-scale outdoor projections highlighted the connections between all living things, and the Paris-based artist was per
Although she was in the Amazon working with indigenous communities to purchase and

Riley Gott began his doctoral studies in August 2022 studying the taxonomy and systematics of the primarily Neotropical butterfly genera Dalla, Ladda, and Piruna (family Hesperiidae), under a joint graduate assistantship from the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Entomology and
Immature stages of Ebusus ebusus ebusus (Cramer, 1780) in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera

Monica Shippritt – PCP PIRE Volunteer I am a first-year biology student at the University of Panama. I am also a volunteer in with the PCP PIRE project. I am part of the PCP PIRE because I am interesed in learning more about the different techniques used in paleontology so I can use them in the fut
as part of a Science Major’s study abroad trip to the Galapagos, Quito, and the Amazon

Butterflies fly during the day while moths travel at night – or so you might think. In reality, their behavior is much more complicated. A new Florida Museum of Natural History study offers the first comprehensive overview of the surprisingly complex question of when butterflies and moths are act
adaptable to all kinds of environments, whether it’s the top of a mountain, an Amazon