National Geographic UK - 10.2019

WHERE FISH ARE STUCK IN TIME VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE BY RICHARD CONNIFF PHOTOGRAPHS BY CRAIG CUTLER A LOUISIANA BIOLOGIST’S H ...

Three common half- beaks (Hyporhamphus unifasciatus), caught in the Gulf of Mexico in 1954, reflect the depth of the collection ...

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Collection manager Justin Mann cradles an Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus. Dams that block breed- ing grounds threaten t ...

IS A HORROR MOVIE director’s dream of a nat- ural history collection. You find it by driving 10 miles southeast of New Orleans, ...

for Suttkus, on the contrary, was that everything in his net ended up in a jar. Other biologists frowned. Overcollecting at the ...

Zebra moray eel, Gymnomuraena zebra 2. American pocket shark, Mollisquama mississippiensis n. sp. Largehead hairtail, Trichiuru ...

These are harelip suck- ers (Moxostoma lace- rum), a species that is now extinct. Scientists say the fish was starved out of exi ...

Ocellated synodontis, Synodontis ocellifer 2. Mississippi paddlefish, Polyodon spathula 3. Leopard moray eel, Enchelycore parda ...

Freshwater fish from the region make up the vast majority of the collection. Spe- cies from other sources include this monkfish, ...

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125 VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE BY RICHARD CONNIFF PHOTOGRAPHS BY GABRIELE GALIMBERTI AND JURI DE LUCA A Kaatedocus siberi stands ...

Workers at Zoic, a fossil restoration firm in Trieste, Italy, reas- semble an Allosaurus unearthed in Wyoming. The specimen late ...

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Like a prehistoric nod to the sea outside, a 17-foot-long mosasaur floats above Joan and Henry Kriegstein in their home in Mas- ...

A MOTEL IN THE MIDDLE of Tucson, Arizona, a head and neck surgeon in cowboy boots and blue jeans is sitting by the pool and rhap ...

simply curious, as well as to serious collectors looking to bid. Natural history auctions are a particular draw for the latter s ...

Known in some circles as the “dinosaur cowboy,” rancher Clayton Phipps (at top) explores part of the Hell Creek formation near h ...

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