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Shark attacks are most likely to occur on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon and involve surfers wearing black and white bathing suits, a first-of-its-kind study from the Florida Museum suggests. Researchers analyzed statistics from shark attacks that occurred in Florida’s Vo
Hand splashing and feet kicking provoke sharks, which bite and release what they

Agricola Road Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PO047 Location The site was located about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Bradley, Polk County, Florida, in the Hookers Prairie Mine. It gets its name due to its proximity to Agricola Road. It was exposed by commercial phosphate minin
The in situ fossil-bearing layer was excavated with small hand tools and matrix was

The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as its role as a menace. Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been
With Hubbell’s hand-drawn maps and descriptions of the landscape, researchers returned

What is oVert? oVert, short for openVertebrate, is a new initiative to provide free, digital 3-D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public. Over the next four years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collections
Even delicate structures, such as the muscles in the hand of this Tanzanian screeching

Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing bat populations that last shared an ancestor hundreds of thousands of years
collapsed in 2009 Reed and Speer suddenly had dozens of free-tailed bat specimens at hand

When most people hear the words Guantanamo Bay, they immediately think of the infamous prison built there in 2001. But for Roger Portell, an invertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Guantanamo means the chance to collect marine fossils on an island that is otherwise larg
The younger terrace fossils, on the other hand, look like they formed fairly close

In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to finish excavating a site known as Haile 7G – one of the state’s richest fossil sites due to the sheer number of complete skeletons found in its unique sediments. But
Although the quarry owners wholly support the dig – even lending a helping hand

As the year comes to a close, winter begins to cool the northern hemisphere, and we enter the holiday season (#fishmas). Even here in Florida, the air has turned “cold�, as evident by the iguanas falling out of trees. In honor of the season, we wanted to highlight the sharks that have mastered the c
Photo courtesy NOAA Porbeagles (Lamna nasus), on the other hand, can raise their

The Calusa may have been the only ancient people in North America who established a kingdom without practicing agriculture. Their sophistication and fierceness enabled them to resist Spanish domination for some 200 years. The Calusa king Caalus, perched high on his throne in his grand house, watc
They recovered various types of Spanish artifacts such as majolica ceramics, hand-wrought

February 23rd was the annual Calusa Heritage Day, hosted by the Randell Research Center at the Calusa Heritage Trail in Pineland. It was a great day weather-wise, and the many participants had a great time sharing their knowledge with the public. Over 1500 people attended. Dr. Karen Walker
Moncrief John Beriault uses a hand tool to decorate the pottery he is making.