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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Undergraduate students are underlined 2023 VL Mathis and R Mathieu. Investigating the species status of Sherman’s short-tailed shrew (Blarina shermani): preliminary insights. Joint meeting of the 13th International Mammalogical Congress and the 102nd annual meeting of the American Society of Mamma
Microsatellite-DNA evidence population structure in the endangered Laotian Rock-Rat
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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The McGuire Center hosts numerous visiting researchers throughout the year. With the easing of travel restrictions, the past two months have been an enjoyable and busy time at the Center with several old friends and colleagues stopping by for quick visits while on spring break and others joining us
collection, examined type specimens, selected loan material, and sampled legs for DNA
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
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Male and female butterflies often have different colors or patterns. Gynandromorphs—part male, part female—show a mix of both. Such anomalies, found once in 100,000 of wild butterflies, can result from mutations, disease, or errors during development. Summary Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio g
parent female accidently develops two nuclei, each with its own copy of maternal DNA
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just before abandoning the failed mining operation in 1498. It is the first known European extraction of
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