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Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
genera of frogmouths exist: one in southeast Asia and the other in Australia and New Guinea

Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized and used in various ways by different cultures. Frog toxins are remarkably potent in the human body and may be used to treat heart ailments, infections, cancer, depression, strok
This enlarged, contrast-enhanced CT scan of a toothless Guinea snout-burrowing frog

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
Surveys of Papua New Guinea uncovered about 150 snail species new to science.

In 2012, a crop of California’s most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and falling away, revealing stems that had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina st
Might Also Like Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
Eastern Atlantic collections from the Gulf of Guinea are available in some abundance

Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like before the arrival of humans. This is especially true of coastal ecosystems, many of which had already been drastically altered by pollution and overharvesti
Andes Mountains Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

Many frogs look like a water balloon with legs, but don’t be fooled. Beneath slick skin, some species sport spines, spikes and other skeletal secrets. While most frogs share a simple skull shape with a smooth surface, others have evolved fancier features, such as faux fangs, elaborate crests, hel
Hemisus guineensis, the Guinea shovelnose frog of sub-Saharan Africa, spends most

So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea

Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial ob
Might Also Like Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

Abstract The following list of non-marine gastropod fauna summarizes the known species and subspecies that are recognized from Mexico and Central America. It is an annotated list of 1789 terminal taxa presented in a hierarchical framework. These include 1491 native species plus 278 native subspecie
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea