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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

Austin, G. T. and A. D. Warren. 2007. The type of Copaeodes chromis Skinner, 1919 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Insecta Mundi, 0019:1-2. Austin, G. T., A. D. Warren, C. M. Penz, J. E. Llorente-Bousquets, A. Luis-Martinez and I. Vargas-Fernandez. 2007. A new species of Opsiphanes Double
Delias (Lepidoptera:Pieridae) from New Ireland Island, Bismark Islands, Papua New Guinea

Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa, which they recommend be designated as endangered. The plant, which grows as a small bush sheathed in an imposing layer of thorns, was found during a survey to c
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The Indo-West Pacific is the largest, most biodiverse marine ecosystem on Earth, and many of the species it supports have comparably wide ranges. Writing in “The Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin noted that “… many fish range from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, and many shells are common to the
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The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you envision safe and protective child care. But a new study on the 600-million-year history of these obscure animals highlights the import
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In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an unexpected link between Caribbean bird life and the Old World. Like many animals unique to the Caribbean,
the flufftails, flying birds that live in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and New Guinea

iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million specimen records in its online database, offering access to one of the largest virtual collections of life on Earth. Natural history collections w
Now extinct, it was native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical habitat for a rare species of freshwater mussel once thought to be extinct. The new ruling, which went into effect Aug. 2, outlines protective measures for the Suwannee moccasinshell,
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See full directory profile > Research Statement We live at a critical time for biodiversity. The biosphere is undergoing profound alterations as a result of human activities, with a mass extinction erasing much of our biological heritage before it is even documented. My research program is defi
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Early Foundations Although established in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History Fish Collection was small and parochial in character until the late 1950s. Leonard Giovannoli served as part-time curator during the 1930s and 1940s while teaching in the University of Florida Department of Bi
surveyed the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas basins, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Guinea