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Costa Rica Photography Workshop with the Florida Museum and Holbrook Travel – Events

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/events/blog/costa-rica-photography-workshop-with-the-florida-museum-and-holbrook-travel/

It’s pre-dawn. Your camera and lenses are packed, and you’ve pulled yourself out of bed before sunrise for early morning photography. Nature photography takes planning, persistence, patience and grit. But you return home with images you are technically unhappy with. Perhaps they were not exposed pr
And in this dream scenario, you’d have a professional photographer on hand to answer

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School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate – Research News

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A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked the massive predator at about 50 to 60 feet long. The revised estimate is t
Now when a paleontologist unearths a lone megalodon tooth the size of their hand,

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Greenland Shark – Discover Fishes

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Somniosus microcephalus This large, heavy-set shark grows to an average 8-14 feet long but can get to be 24 feet. It has a short, rounded snout, small eyes, and relatively small dorsal fins. Although it is an apex predator, it is a slow swimmer, and likely ambushes its prey and scavenges for
Greenland shark dentition: upper and lower teeth from the right-hand side, at the

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Crevalle Jack – Discover Fishes

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Caranx hippos This large fish is wonderfully abundant in the Atlantic Ocean, and popular resource for both commercial and sports fishers alike. The juvenile is striped vertically along its sides, but as it matures, it changes to an even greenish-bluish above and silver or golden below. Usually ad
Adults, on the other hand, usually occupy upstream currents, reefs, offshore areas

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Sharksucker – Discover Fishes

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Echeneis naucrates These are very recognizable fish because of their highly modified dorsal fin that is an oval shaped sucking disc. They are as long as 43 inches, and slender, with lower jaws that extend much further than upper. They attach themselves to sharks, turtles, whales, large bony fish,
In captivity, the sharksucker can be feed pieces of clam and fish by hand.

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Irma’s Impacts – Randell Research Center

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Plants flowering at the wrong time of year suggest the approach of a powerful wind. Dolphins inexplicably abandon the harbor. Familiar birds are suddenly nowhere to be seen. Such observations have been recounted by local fisherfolk and Native Americans as signs that a serious storm is on the way. W
neighbor helped neighbor and devised solutions to cope with the difficulties at hand

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Thorny Skate – Discover Fishes

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Amblyraja radiata These cool-water skates have rounded diamond shaped pectoral disks with stout tails, usually muddy brown on top, and white underneath. They are named for the scattered thorny denticles along their spines, edges of pectoral fins, and tails, interspersed with smaller ‚prickles‘. T
Males, on the other hand, lose most of the thorns on the pectoral fins except along

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Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections – Research News

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical habitat for a rare species of freshwater mussel once thought to be extinct. The new ruling, which went into effect Aug. 2, outlines protective measures for the Suwannee moccasinshell,
To find them, biologists have to slowly sift through sediment by hand.

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Whitetip Reef Shark – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/whitetip-reef-shark/

Triaenodon obesus The Whitetip Reef Shark is a smaller, greyish brown shark with a distinctive white tip on its dorsal and caudal fins. (Compagno, 2005) It prefers caves and coral reefs, often be found resting by the bottom of the ocean by day and hunting by night (Compagno, 2005). Unlike many sh
The shark has a naturally placid nature to where they can be hand-fed (Fitzpatrick

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Greater Amberjack – Discover Fishes

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Seriola dumerili This large fish is slender and agile, and can grow to be more than 6 feet long. Its is mostly a silvery white color, with a darker gray or bluish coloring from above. This is a popular recreational fish but because it is in the of the apex of the marine food chain, the larger one
Caught primarily with hydraulic reels, hand-lines, roads-and-reels, and traps, the

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