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✨Meet Jordan✨ 🌳Jordan is our GIS Analyst with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program. She maintains data on species of conservation concern. 🔥She also loves helping with prescribed burns whenever she can! 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #aumnh #alnhp #auburn

✨Meet Jamie✨ 🐊Jamie Oaks is a Curator of Herpetology. His research focuses on understanding the processes responsible for our planet’s biodiversity, using the reptiles of Southeast Asia as a model 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #aumnh #auburnuniversity #cosam

That Friday Feeling is brought to you by Bagel the Eastern box turtle on her morning adventure! #aumnh #arboretum #cosam #auburnuniversity #fridayfeels

⚠️Camp Registration for Curious Curators Opens TOMORROW Register⬇️ 🔗 aub.ie/sciencematters #aumnh #cosam #sciencematters #auburnuniversity

Celebrating all the unstoppable women and girls from yesterday's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬🧪🐟🪲💪 #aumnh #womeninstem #auburnuniversity instagram.com/reel/DUok8wlEb…

Happy Birthday, Auburn University! #WarEagle to 170 years 🎉🥳

✨Meet Ray!✨ 🦴Ray Willhite teaches anatomy at AUCVM and is our Curator of Paleontology. He researches sauropod dinosaurs, alligators, sloths, and giraffes. He loves teaching and inspiring students! 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #aumnh #auburnuniversity

🐎Protohippus gidleyi lived millions of years ago in AL! This three-toed, ancient horse shows early adaptations to grasslands. Its worn teeth helped grind plants, and its fossils tell the story of horse evolution in our state. #aumnh #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday

🪰 🐎 Kicking off Year of the Horse, insect-style! This paratype of horsefly species (Tabanus wilsoni) was described in '62. With over 3,000 species in Tabaninae, paratypes help scientists document natural variation and insect diversity! #aumnh #auburnuniversity #YearOfTheHorse

Did someone say 2016?? #throwback #throwback2016 #aumnh #thowbacktuesday

Read more about Brian Counterman’s vision for the museum ⬇️ 🔗 wire.auburn.edu/content/cosam/…

✨Please welcome our NEW Director, Brian! ✨ 🦋Brian researches how genetics & the environment shape development. He has spent decades studying butterfly wing patterns and loves combining fieldwork & lab research! 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #aumnh #cosam

Learn more about the #RedHillsSalamander and Alabama’s great salamander biodiversity by watching Southern Exposure’s documentary: #Salabama 🔗southernexposurefilms.org/films/salabama

The Red Hills salamander lives just beneath the surface. Biologists from #ALNHP use environmental DNA (eDNA) from burrow soil to detect these threatened creatures without disturbing them—helping guide conservation! 📷1-2: Jim Godwin 📷3: Kevin Hutchinson #FromTheFieldFriday

📸Show us your best selfie for Museum Selfie Day! #aumnh #auburnuniversity #museumselfieday instagram.com/reel/DTyhBCoEW…

⏰🐢 Reminder! Don’t miss your chance to apply for the J. Larry Landers Student Research Grant. Funding up to $3,000 supports undergrad & grad research on Gopher Tortoises & upland habitat conservation. Deadline Feb 5! #SEPARC #GopherTortoise #StudentResearch #ConservationGrants

✨Meet Francesca✨ 🐍Our #ALNHP researcher studies Eastern Indigo Snakes & other endangered species. She loves spending time in the field with reptiles and amphibians and enjoys scuba diving, reading, baking, and traveling! 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #aumnh

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴Our #paleontology curator, Ray Willhite, was featured on the Prehistoric Life Podcast doing a deep dive into sauropod limbs Check out the full episode 🔗 youtube.com/clip/UgkxXBoPZ… #aumnh #auburnuniversity #sauropods #anatomy #prehistoriclifepodcast

Small beetle. Big survival skills. 🐞 As larvae, the palmetto tortoise beetles (Hemisphaerota cyanea) hide under nests made of their own fecal thatch to hide from predators! 📸1: Matt Edmonds 📸2&3: Melissa Callahan #tortoisebeetle #specimenspotlight #aumnh #entomology

✨ Meet Al! ✨ 🌻Our Botanist has spent 30+ years studying AL's rarest plant life. He’s worked on conservation plans, monitoring and assessing plants. He enjoys photography, farming, and outdoor adventures! 📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday! #MuseumMonday #alnhp