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Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, dinosaurs and fish, mammals long ago traded in their ancestral suit of armor for a layer of insulating hair. Armadillos, with their protective and flexible shell of imbricated bon
However, aside from similarities in their DNA and potentially the shape of their

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

Herbarium Methodologies Learn about herbaria and the techniques we use to preserve and study plant specimens. A herbarium is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study. These collections are diverse, including pressed, dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microsc
dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, frozen DNA

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently recognized operations coordinator Kurt Auffenberg as the 2010 recipient of the Thompson Van Hyning Award. The service award, the highest given to museum employees who are not faculty members or students, honors the museum’s first director, Thompson V
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

Our last Volunteer Enrichment Workshop of the season was a blast! Nicole Fuller, Collections Manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology collections and program, along with our director, Michelle LeFebvre, provided an overview of cutting-edge environmental archaeolog
archaeology geochemical and biochemical analysis techniques (e.g., isotopes, ancient DNA

A new book by Nicolas Delsol, a courtesy faculty member and former researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, reveals the profound role cattle played in shaping the Americas. Delsol is currently in the Laboratoire d’Archéologie at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. In this book, Delsol
their impact in the Americas by using a broad range of methods, such as ancient DNA

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, and if that seems like an odd pairing, there’s a reason why. Today, there
all went wrong by Jerald Pinson • May 22, 2025 Scientists analyzed ancient DNA