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4 Foot, 2 Inch Squid Washes Up On South ShoreFriday, March 27, 2015
[Updated] A four foot, two inch squid washed up on the South Shore today [Mar 27], with the specimen now on its way to the Aquarium for analysis.
HSBC fund to aid water conservation
Monday, March 23, 2015
The Global HSBC Water Programme has received funding to support two conservation projects in Bermuda.
Waging war on Island’s lionfish menace
Friday, March 20, 2015
A full-time, deep sea culling programme to help to control the number of invasive lionfish is being created by the Ocean Support Foundation.
Tracking the epic journey of sea turtles
Friday, March 13, 2015
New data about Bermuda’s sea turtles, including research tracing the journey of young animals from Bermuda to foreign shores, is to be presented at an upcoming talk.
Educational Opportunities Aboard Endurance
Friday, February 27, 2015
From exploring the surface, to diving beneath the ocean waves, a voyage aboard the Endurance brings with it a multitude of raw emotions that can embolden the most fearful, inspire the most discouraged, and impassion the most indifferent.
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A “mystery specimen” was found at Clearwater Beach earlier this year has been determined to be the jaw of a very large Parrotfish.
The most recent Bermuda Zoological Society newsletter said, “A mystery specimen was found by snorkelers as they approached the beach at Clearwater earlier this year.
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“At first glance their find was thought to be from the mouth of a fish that grinds its food – an eagle ray perhaps?
“However, Nigel Pollard, captain of the Endurance, pointed out that the rows of grinding structures in the mouth of an eagle ray are more like linear or chevron-shaped plates, and those of our mystery specimen are individual rounded structures.
“To answer the question of what our specimen is, we turned to a colleague at the Florida Museum of Natural History who told us that our, “Specimen is from a very large Parrotfish [Family - Scaridae].
“The element is the lower pharyngeal grinder [jaw], but, unfortunately, without comparing our specimen, physically, with his reference specimens, he wasn’t able to identify it to genus and species.