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Beyond the party horn tongue 🥳🐸 @rmkeeffe and team x-rayed cane toads' feeding behavior to document the complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart.
Story:
https://t.co/kTf7fh1lA9
The origin story of the Assateague horses has been clouded by colonists evading livestock taxes and intriguing legends like the one told about a Spanish shipwreck in the 1947 children’s novel “Misty of Chincoteague.”
Exploring Museum Collections 📍 Coleman Fossil Site
This Sumterville site was likely once a sinkhole near a freshwater habitat. It produced ~5,100 cataloged specimens from a variety of species, incl. small mammals like Sigmodon bakeri & Microtus aratai.
https://t.co/SIYqbCIIp6
Take a look at the beauty in our fishes collection in a mesmerizing and colorful journey inward. 😍
=FREE Exhibit=
Inner Beauty 🐟🌈 Skeletons Revealed from the Museum's Fish Collection
Exhibit info: https://t.co/BnFCOLtkH7
📸: Merluccid Hake by Zach Randall (@Zach__Randall)
Beauty in unexpected places! 😍 Our McGuire Center staff are working on organizing and digitizing parts of this large collection of more than 19,000 Lepidoptera genitalia slides. More about this collection from Deborah Matthews, Jim Hayden and team:
https://t.co/26wySpAAz9
Exploring Museum Collections 🐟 Fish heads
Clearing and staining, also known as diaphanization, uses a digestive enzyme to clear away soft tissue but not the collagen.
=Free Exhibit=
Inner Beauty: Skeletons Revealed from the Museum's Fish Collection
More: https://t.co/xzyIrPhGfC
Beauty is more than skin deep! 🌈
Inner Beauty:
Skeletons Revealed from the Museum's Fish Collection
=Free Gallery Exhibit=
Colorful images showcase the artistic wonders of cleared & stained and CT scanned specimens.
Info: https://t.co/BnFCOLtkH7
Images by @zach__Randall
Art + Science: A painting and a specimen both contribute to our understanding of an organism.
Watercolor by Minna Fernald, Sept. 1933
Specimen (FLAS 12090) collected by A.S. Rhoads, Sept. 1936
Caesar's Weed (Urena lobata) is not native to Florida. More: https://t.co/wq9PmhT41E
Nov 12 🌎 Science Off Tap: Mangroves on the Move
Why is it important for us to know what mangroves are up to? Join the @UFearthsystems Zoom with Julie Walker, Marine Conservation Fellow at UF’s @Whitney_Lab. Info & registration:
https://t.co/amFCUpBwl6