Epinephelus amblycephalus These tropical reef fish prefer the deeper rocky reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean. They are classical almond-shaped groupers, with pointed snouts and large, round eyes, a continuous spiny dorsal fin, and a rounded caudal (tail) fin. Usually light brown to pale grey, th
It is caught with hand lines and typically sold fresh.
The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology welcomes the use of its collections by outside researchers regardless of academic affiliation. The following steps should be taken: Contact one of the Vertebrate Paleontology curators and inform them of the intended dates of your visit and the type(s)
Visitors wishing to borrow specimens and hand carry them back to their institution
During the winter holidays every year, hundreds of “snowbirds� travel from the northern U.S. and Canada for the warmth of the South Florida sun. But there’s always the occasional cold spell. As luck would have it, temperatures in December 2012 dropped while Florida Museum of Natural Histor
from a boat during the day, captured moths at night and collected sea creatures by hand
Earth Day, Every Day! This year the Florida Museum, in partnership with the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute, has declared the month of April, Earth Day, Every Day! We invite you to a full month of Earth Day activities and challenges. Each day we have a suggested activity or r
April 16 | Living Greener Which saves more water – dishwashing by hand or machine
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
Sgambati from Seahorse Key and Lisa Lundgren from the UF Education school were also on hand
Haile 7C University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL109 Location In a limerock quarry about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of the town of Newberry, Alachua County, Florida; 29.69º N, 82.56º W. Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; middle late Blancan land mammal age About  2.2 and 1.9 mil
All of the bones of the wrist and hand were preserved.
I-75 Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL018 Location Southwestern Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, at the intersection of Interstate Highway 75 (I-75) and SR 121 (Williston Road); 29.6° N, 82.4° W. Age Early Oligocene Epoch; later half of Whitneyan land mammal
On the other hand, derived specimens of chiropterans and Miohippus suggest an age
It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants through time. But a new four-year grant from the National Science Foundation is shaking things up. It provides more than $1 million to study how Mediterranea
With that information in hand, the next phase of the project will incorporate computer
The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attacks in that area, according to a University of Florida scientist. In a new seven-year study, researchers from the Florida Museum of Na
They also investigated environmental circumstances, resource availability, first-hand
Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species
plane, I would have been able to recognize them, but with the material we had on hand
