Where can you find AUMNH this fall? Check out these upcoming dates!
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✨Meet Jordan✨
🌳Jordan is our GIS Analyst with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program. She maintains data on species of conservation concern.
🔥She also loves helping with prescribed burns whenever she can!
📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!
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✨Meet Jamie✨
🐊Jamie Oaks is a Curator of Herpetology. His research focuses on understanding the processes responsible for our planet’s biodiversity, using the reptiles of Southeast Asia as a model
📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!
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That Friday Feeling is brought to you by Bagel the Eastern box turtle on her morning adventure!
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⚠️Camp Registration for Curious Curators Opens TOMORROW
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Celebrating all the unstoppable women and girls from yesterday's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬🧪🐟🪲💪
#aumnh #womeninstem #auburnuniversity
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✨Meet Ray!✨
🦴Ray Willhite teaches anatomy at AUCVM and is our Curator of Paleontology. He researches
sauropod dinosaurs, alligators, sloths, and giraffes. He loves teaching and inspiring students!
📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!
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🐎Protohippus gidleyi lived millions of years ago in AL!
This three-toed, ancient horse shows early adaptations to grasslands. Its worn teeth helped grind plants, and its fossils tell the story of horse evolution in our state.
#aumnh #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday
🪰 🐎 Kicking off Year of the Horse, insect-style!
This paratype of horsefly species (Tabanus wilsoni) was described in '62. With over 3,000 species in Tabaninae, paratypes help scientists document natural variation and insect diversity!
#aumnh #auburnuniversity #YearOfTheHorse
Read more about Brian Counterman’s vision for the museum ⬇️
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The Red Hills salamander lives just beneath the surface. Biologists from #ALNHP use environmental DNA (eDNA) from burrow soil to detect these threatened creatures without disturbing them—helping guide conservation!
📷1-2: Jim Godwin
📷3: Kevin Hutchinson
#FromTheFieldFriday
Learn more about the #RedHillsSalamander and Alabama’s great salamander biodiversity by watching Southern Exposure’s documentary: #Salabama
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📸Show us your best selfie for Museum Selfie Day!
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⏰🐢 Reminder! Don’t miss your chance to apply for the J. Larry Landers Student Research Grant. Funding up to $3,000 supports undergrad & grad research on Gopher Tortoises & upland habitat conservation. Deadline Feb 5!
#SEPARC #GopherTortoise #StudentResearch #ConservationGrants
Happy #FossilFriday!
🦴Our #paleontology curator, Ray Willhite, was featured on the Prehistoric Life Podcast doing a deep dive into sauropod limbs
Check out the full episode
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#aumnh #auburnuniversity #sauropods #anatomy #prehistoriclifepodcast
Small beetle. Big survival skills. 🐞
As larvae, the palmetto tortoise beetles (Hemisphaerota cyanea) hide under nests made of their own fecal thatch to hide from predators!
📸1: Matt Edmonds
📸2&3: Melissa Callahan
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