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LOM gives away $25,000 to mark 25 yearsMonday, January 29, 2018
LOM Financial gave away $25,000 to charity at an event to mark its 25th anniversary.
Flying visit for rare bird
Monday, January 22, 2018
One of the largest plunge divers in the world made a rare and spectacular appearance off the North Shore.
Island ponds given overhaul by BZS
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Two ponds have been cleaned up courtesy of an island conservation programme.
Cahow breeding season set to break records
Monday, January 15, 2018
This year’s cahow breeding season could be a record breaker, experts predicted yesterday.
“Andy” Is Now The Longest Tracked Tiger Shark
Friday, January 12, 2018
Andy — a tiger shark tagged in Bermuda by scientists from Nova Southeastern University’s [NSU] Guy Harvey Research Institute [GHRI] in 2014 — is now the longest tracked tiger shark on record.
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All the latest updates and news from the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, one of Bermuda's leading visitor attractions!
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.