Our last days on St. Martin were a flurry of activity. Our last day was spent draining ethanol in preparation for our flight and packing up all our specimens and gear. The four of us who were returning to Gainesville checked a total of 9 bags eliciting the curiosity of our fellow passengers and the
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Invertebrates on the Web Florida Museum resources SNAILS of Florida (FL) Collection Databases (FL) Discover Science (FL) Biodiversity Large-scale projects Census of Marine Life Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
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Other Crustacea
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Whether by buzzing, singing, cawing or hissing, plenty of animals boast their own form of communication. But researchers now hope to unlock a common predator-prey language found in insects and mammals: echolocation in hawkmoths and bats. “Moths and bats are completely unrelated yet they are t
The grant will fund research in Ecuador, French Guinea and Borneo, molecular biology
These first few days have been busy! We arrived Sunday evening after a quick 2 hour flight from Miami. We settled into our place, had a good meal and got up the next morning ready to get to work. We have been brought on board to do a biodiversity survey of the French Marine National Park on St. Mart
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Leading non-marine malacologist Fred G. Thompson died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, at the age of 82. Born in 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, Fred was fascinated by the natural world from an early age. Herpetology was his initial interest, but during his travels he was struck by the diversity of non-marine mollu
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So, we’ve been generally doing two simultaneous field excursions per day, one group goes diving and one group goes snorkeling/wading. Usually we split up at the dock, but one day we all piled onto the boat (9 of us, plus dive gear for 5). Here is the boat from the water, once the snorkelers have a
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Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large to
Western Indian Ocean through India, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia to New Guinea
At the beginning of the year, Gustav and I traveled to Hong Kong to help with an ARMS project led by David Baker’s lab at Hong Kong University. Gustav is highly sought-after for his extensive invertebrate expertise, and I…know a lot about putting animals in jars. If you don’t know what ARMS are,
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I hope this post finds you safe and healthy. Here at the Florida Museum, things have been shut down for a while, and it has given us a great opportunity to tackle all the parts of our job that our job prevents us from doing. Now that we are not out in the field, or physically in the museum answeri
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