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Manatee Skulls Being Shipped Overseas for Research: Florida Marine Research Institute

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A Worldwide Interest in Manatees

For decades, Florida researchers have preserved some of the bones from nearly every dead manatee collected by the state, partly as a record of mortality, but also for research purposes--especially determining a manatee's age. Now, one collection of those preserved bones is headed to Scotland, as Florida Marine Research Institute's Alex Costidis explains...

Museums in Scotland and Japan will be receiving a special shipment from state scientists here in Florida: Manatee bones. The overseas destinations will both establish curated exhibits and also conduct further research on the bones. Florida Marine Research Institute's Alex Costidis says the Florida bones were collected in the 80s and 90s in hopes of determining the age of dead manatees...

Researchers in Scotland will be trying to determine if pollution has affected Manatees in the past century or so. That's thanks to a collection of Florida manatee bones that are being sent to a Scottish museum. Alex Costidis is a marine biologist with the Florida Marine Research Institute...

A museum in Japan joins another in Scotland in receiving manatee bones collected in 80s and 90s here in Florida. State Marine Biologist Alex Costidis is coordinating the shipment

Furthering Manatee Research

State scientists are shipping out hundreds of Florida manatee bones to museums in Scotland and Japan, in hopes of gaining a greater understanding of the creatures. The Florida bones have been collected and warehoused since the 1980s...