Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Hand

Entomologist Akito Kawahara’s message is straightforward: We can’t live without insects. They’re in trouble. And there’s something all of us can do to help. Kawahara’s research has primarily focused on answering fundamental questions about moth and butterfly evolution. But he’s increasingly haunt
You can give insects a hand – and reduce your electric bill – by turning off unnecessary

New research shows human activity is significantly altering the ways in which marine organisms are preserved, with lasting effects that can both improve and impair the fossil record. “We are not only changing the environment; we’re also changing the nature of the record that archives this informa
On one hand, human activities can prevent the fossil record from preserving useful

A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
work behind the scenes, and museum visitors only learn of their discoveries second-hand

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
audible clicking sound, but we don’t know how they do it; and I can count on my hand

The Aucilla River Prehistory Project was an archaeological and paleontological project excavating a particularly rich series of deposits that yielded ancient megafaunal remains in association with Paleoindian artifacts. The Aucilla River flows into the Big Bend area of northwestern Florida. The riv
Larger artifacts and bones are hand collected by the divers.

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
GatorCorps members and UF Gulf Scholar students visited the center to lend a helping hand

New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures and crop fields, can act as a barrier to big-eyed birds, potentially contributing to their decline. Florida Museum of Natural History researchers found strong links between bird eye size, habitat and fora
then clamber over steep ridges and through thick shrubs and bamboo, antenna in hand

The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love of freshwater mussels. Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes. But bivalves? Not so much. Yet Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery could not sift through a single bag of material fr
attention to patterns she and Emery had noticed previously, with species names in hand

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
A 1759 account noted that “the fat horses (reach a height) of seven or more hand

Scomberomorus regalis This solitary torpedo-shaped fish is streamlined and strong, with finlets running between the prominent second dorsal and anal fins, and the crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a green-blue from above, and mostly silvery white except for brassy spots and streaks on its sides n
On the other hand, the dark coloration of the cero mackerel’s back blends in with