Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Guinea

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

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants, animals, fungi and other eukaryotic life on Earth, is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full scale production sequencing. Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the Fl
eastern U.S. forests 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

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

To be fair, the newly described Waray dwarf burrowing snake is pretty great at hiding. In its native habitat on the islands of Samar and Leyte in the Philippines, the snake usually surfaces only after heavy rains, similar to earthworms washing up on suburban sidewalks after a downpour. So, it
on its lower jaw Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

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

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

2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70. Four of last year’s attacks resulted in fatalities, also a significant reduction from recent years. The International Sha
human-altered landscapes Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ago. Or at least, that’s what paleontologists thought, until they began
from the Caribbean Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for overlooking it in favor of Cuba’s prismatic parrots. But looks aren’t everything. For decades, this u
first — albeit extinct — Caribbean bird whose closest relatives are in Africa, New Guinea