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Reports from Regatta: Two Cal Alumni and the USGS Menlo Park Collection

The letter from Cliff Nelson to Warren Addicott.  As undergraduate work-study students recataloging the United States Geological Survery (USGS) Menlo Park Invertebrate collection at the UCMP, we've...

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Reports from Regatta: T.W. Stanton, prominent contributor to the USGS...

In the orphaned U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Menlo Park Invertebrate Collection, now housed in the UC Museum of Paleontology’s off-campus collections space in the Regatta Building, the work of...

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Encounters in the field: UCMP and the US Geological Survey

Buchia crassicollis specimens collected by J.S. Diller in 1899. Photo by Erica Clites.Hundreds of specimens from the former USGS Menlo Park Collection, now housed in the UC Museum of Paleontology, were...

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Flash! Grad student discovers how Ctenoides ales, the “disco clam,” flashes

Back in 2010, while diving in Indonesia, Lindsey Dougherty first witnessed the flashing behavior of the so-called “electric clam” or “disco clam,” Ctenoides ales. She decided then and there that the...

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Air-breathing snails, old and new

The UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is home to more than five million invertebrate fossil specimens, a majority of them being marine in origin. While rehousing the US Geological Survey’s Menlo Park...

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Cryptic caves and paleoecology of crustaceans in Cenozoic coral reefs

Just some months ago on a Saturday in July, I had the pleasure of snorkeling above the only coral reefs in the continental Unites States. These reefs in southern Florida still harbor many species of...

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Understanding the evolutionary history of the cassiduloid echinoids

Figure 1: Photographs of Rhyncholampas gouldii (Bouve) (Cassidulidae) in aboral, oral and posterior view (from left to right). It is widely recognized that major groups evolve at different rates, in...

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What do traces of predators tell about ancient marine ecosystems?

Reconstructing biotic interactions is crucial to understand the functioning and evolution of ecosystems through time, but this is notoriously difficult. Competition in deep time cannot be readily seen...

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EPICC Virtual Field Experiences

The EPICC project (Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic) is pleased to launch the first suite of virtual fieldwork experience (VFE) modules set in the Kettleman Hills near Coalinga...

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How often does extreme competition occur between species on the ocean floor?

Figure 1. Parasitic snails of the Eulimidae family, probably from the same species, parasitize a sea star (Astropecten sp.). Source: Ria Tan Figure 2. Competition for space in a tidal area between a...

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