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Florida Museum of Natural History curator and distinguished professor Pamela Soltis has been elected to serve as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, a professional organization devoted to research and education in the field of plant taxonomy. Soltis, Florida Museum curator of
advisor of the year Evolution Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA

So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
assigned in the field which links a particular specimen with it’s photograph and DNA

Did you know you can visit the Museum online instead of in person? You can explore our online exhibits, YouTube playlists, news and blogs to keep inspired about science and nature. There’s a lot here that you might not know about! Our website is vast, with many thousands of pages and millions of
scientists can’t explain Key points White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA

2023: Manchester, S.R, A. Foster, T.A. Lott. The Paleocene Horse Creek florule, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, southeastern Montana, USA. Acta Palaeobotanica 63(1): 32-53. 2021: Manchester, S.R., T.A. Lott, F. Herrera, H. Hooghiemstra, V.M. Wijninga and P.W. Fritsch. Symplocos f
DNA (eds.), Banking for the 21st Century, Proceeding of the U.S.

In 426 AD, a noble we now know as K’inich Yax K’uk‘ Mo‘ (Great Sun First Quetzal Macaw), arrived in the Copán Valley of Honduras, Central America, and founded a dynasty of Maya kings that endured for over 400 years. Where Yax Ku’k Mo originally traveled from is still a mystery, but we have learned t
Chickasaws repurposed Spanish objects for everyday use Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA

The Indo-West Pacific is the largest, most biodiverse marine ecosystem on Earth, and many of the species it supports have comparably wide ranges. Writing in “The Origin of Species,� Charles Darwin noted that “… many fish range from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, and many shells are common to the
species are related to each other, which he accomplished through an analysis of DNA

Social distancing during Covid challenged us all to look for fun new ways to share science. Not many people get to visit museums behind the scenes, but technology allowed visitors to Zoom in and spend time with scientists in their collections. Chandra Earl created #collectionsbattle, an informal
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish suspected to have land-walking abilities. The findings are based on CT scans and a new evolutionary map of the hillstream loach family, which includes the only living fish species caught in the act of walking: a rare,
The team used CT scanning and DNA analysis to trace the evolutionary history of the

To be fair, the newly described Waray dwarf burrowing snake is pretty great at hiding. In its native habitat on the islands of Samar and Leyte in the Philippines, the snake usually surfaces only after heavy rains, similar to earthworms washing up on suburban sidewalks after a downpour. So, it
A close examination of the snake’s DNA and physical features, including its scales

Pamela Soltis, a distinguished professor and curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been selected as a 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society. Soltis is among 508 scientists, engineers and innovators who were chos
Killingsworth receives award for outstanding geoscience graduate students Evolution DNA