Dr. John Abbott, an entomologist and chief curator and director of The University of Alabama department of museum research and collections, said adult cicadas live four to six weeks and it’s the males we hear calling. This is Brood XIX coming out this year.
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A&S in the News: April 14-20, 2024
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A&S in the News: January 27 – February 3, 2024
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A&S in the News: December 10-16, 2023
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UA Paleontologist Discovers Rare Soft Tissue in Fossil
In a recently published paper, Dr. Adiel Klompmaker, University of Alabama Museums’ curator of paleontology, and colleagues reported on a remarkable crab with multiple mineralized soft tissues preserved. This crab lived 75 million years ago during the Cretaceous in the area of present-day South Dakota in an ancient sea known as the Western Interior Seaway.
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A&S in the News: May 14-20, 2023
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