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Wild Statia: Pieces of the Puzzle

New research is telling us more about Caribbean wildlife each year. Discoveries on Statia and nearby islands are piecing together one of the most fascinating puzzles in the world.

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Featured Friend: Sky’s the Limit

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. With Sky’s the Limit, Jacqueline and Emile have built one of the most popular restaurants on the island with terrific barbecue and friendly service. Ribs? Chicken? Fish? Lobster? The sky …

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Featured Friend: Max’s Place

Meet the Friends of the Amuseum, companies and individuals who have donated to help us upgrade and relaunch our free natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis. Max’s Place is located right in the heart of Grand Case, Max’s Place is the perfect place to grab a fresh juice, sandwich or beer. Find Max’s Place on Boulevard …

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Bird Watch SXM: The Soggy Season

After a couple notably dry years, a more typical rainy season has returned to St. Martin. How does this impact the local ecosystem and our feathered friends?

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St. Martin Timelapse

Looking at St. Martin from 1984 to the present with the updated Google Earth timelapse feature is pretty fascinating. It’s certainly not perfect, I think the data is pretty infrequent in the early years and part of what we can see is the improvement in the quality of satellite imagery. Still, we can also see …

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Wild Statia: Personal Hideaways

Even eating machines need a way to defend themselves! On Statia, a wide variety of defense techniques are used by various species, and these caterpillars have their own approach to staying safe:

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Assembly Required: Preparing Skulls, Part Three

With this episode of Preparing Skulls for Your Museum, we arrive at the end of our journey from regular ol’ skulls like you find all over the place to beautiful museum exhibit skulls. Check out the video and, as always, head over to the Amuseum Naturalis site to find out more about our preparations for …

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Assembly Required: Preparing Skulls, Part Three

With this episode of Preparing Skulls for Your Museum, we arrive at the end of our journey from regular ol’ skulls like you find all over the place to beautiful museum exhibit skulls. Check out the video and, as always, head over to the Amuseum Naturalis site to find out more about our preparations for …

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Bird Watch SXM: Mangrove Mystery

Mangroves are the cornerstone of our most important wetland environments, but all over the island what should be leafy and green has turned brown and bare. What’s happening to our mangroves?

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Assembly Required: Soapberry Bugs

Soapberry bugs? Yup! We’re interested in raising some of these insects—which may be locally endemic—as part of a new exhibit. Of course, we also have to raise some soapberry vines so we can ensure a food supply for our bugs. Check out our process:

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