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 …
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?
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 …
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:
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 …
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 …
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?
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:
If you’re enjoying On Expedition with Les Fruits de Mer by Marc AuMarc, you’ll probably want to have the Les Fruits de Mer theme song as a ringtone on your phone. Luckily, we’ve created ringtones with three versions from the album and you can download them right here. Hear the call of expedition and adventure …
Here we go again! Let’s check in on the skull soup we made in the last video and take a few more steps to get our skulls looking great for the museum.