Thanks to Janet Franklin for this guest post! A really amazing research program.
A paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA reports the richest set of late Pleistocene (ice age) vertebrates found on any Caribbean island to date (Abaco Scientist will post the pdf when it is available, but for now some popular media accounts here and […]
Thanks to Janet Franklin for this guest post on their recent paper! Really interesting to think back through these historical changes.
During the last Ice Age, the islands of the Bahamas were cooler, drier, and much larger than today because sea level was over 100 m lower. The Bahamas also were much closer to the Greater Antillean islands of Cuba […]
Figure 1. Growth of Strombus pugilis, and measures of size and maturity used in this study. (g) is an example of a large mature animal from contemporary populations, while (h) is one of the larger animals from Prehuman populations, exemplifying the shift in size due to human […]
This year at ASAC, Dr. David Steadman gave a presentation on the latest research at Gilpin Point, Abaco. As luck would have it, our paper on the Gilpin Point study was published today in THE HOLOCENE. Details after the jump…
Bahamas caracara skull pictured in The National Geographic article from 2007
This Wednesday (10/3) at 7 PM Dr. David Steadman and Dr. Janet Franklin will be presenting their research on how fossils from Blue holes enrich our understanding of natural […]
Building up the paper archive, we are coming across lots of cool stuff-
amazing the research that has gone on in the country. We found this
paper on black holes – a subset of the well-studied blue holes that just
happen to be black. The paper is pretty easy to follow […]
