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Florida Museum of Natural History botanist and herbarium curator Norris Williams has won the Smithsonian Institution’s prestigious José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for his 40-year career studying orchids. The award is given annually to a botanist and scholar of internation
other primary research involves classifying groups of neotropical orchids based on DNA

Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a San Francisco mission existed in northern Florida. San Antonio, San Diego, Santa Fe–all were missions that once served Florida Indians, just as missions with the same names were home to Indians in
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Limpkins, Aramus guarauna, are medium-sized wading birds with long legs and long, slightly curved beaks. Their bodies are covered in brown feathers, and their heads and elongated necks are accented with white flecks. They’re usually found in freshwater wetlands, swamps and mangroves. They are oft
They can look like rails, Rallidae family, or cranes, Gruidae family, but DNA testing

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring molecules — the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites and just recently in a stellar nursery near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy— reacted with a naturally occurring catalyst and began the fateful process of self-assembled
mechanism or another, the reproductive cells in a plant make an extra copy of their DNA

Jon Bloch is no stranger to film crews and talking to viewers about his research. From the origin of primates to Titanoboa, his work has made headlines and caught the public’s imagination. So he was not surprised when asked to participate on an episode of NOVA. The two-hour NOVA series specia
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Early Turkey Domestication Project Investigators: Erin Thornton and Kitty Emery The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is one of the most important food birds in the world, and the only indigenous animal domesticated in North/Central America. Despite the turkey’s importance to both ancient and modern
The project is inter-disciplinary: integrating zooarchaeological, isotopic, and DNA

The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. A new study manipulated early eyespot development in moth pupae to test whether this wing pattern develops similarly in butte
Looking at DNA isn’t enough.

UF archaeologist uses Chicxulub ‘dinosaur crater’ rocks, prehistoric teeth to track ancient humans Where’s the best place to start when retracing the life of a person who lived 4,000 years ago? Turns out, it’s simple—you start at the beginning. Using a method known for helping forensic scien
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For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, too. A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths use sonic pulses from their genitals to respond to bats producing the high-fre
organisms so that we have a record of their behavior along with the specimen and DNA

The Florida Museum of Natural History has appointed Keith Willmott director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, one of the world’s premier research institutes dedicated to butterflies and moths. Willmott, a curator who specializes in Neotropical butterflies, succeeds Jaret Dan
McGuire Center collections, including the frozen tissue collection used in generating DNA