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Big-game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths – Research News

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Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. Determining whether the firs
“I’m not a Steven Spielberg type in that I don’t believe that DNA would bring

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Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium – Research News

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Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium, also known by the acronym FLAS, is the oldest and largest plant collection in the state and among the largest Neotrop
researchers from Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean to sequence the DNA

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Before the Pilgrims, Floridians celebrated the ‘real’ first Thanksgiving – Research News

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It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our tables with stuffing and pumpkin pie the way most of us imagine the Pilgrims did at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. But there’s just one catch, according to archaeologists at the Flori
iron from different periods of America’s colonial past Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA

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St. Catherines Island Research – Environmental Archaeology

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Macrobotanical Research at St. Catherines Island Principal Investigator: Donna Ruhl The St. Catherines Island archaeobotanical collection is among one of the largest well preserved plant collections for Spanish colonial remains in the Americas. In addition, its waterlogged component holds potent
In addition, its waterlogged component holds potential for ancient DNA research for

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Where Did the Calusa Come From? – Randell Research Center

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Visitors to the Calusa Heritage Trail often notice that the Calusa seem quite different from other Indian people in the United States who they have learned about. A natural question, then, is “Where did the Calusa come from?� It is a more complicated question than it might �rst appear. The Pineland
Today, there are enough carefully excavated sites and well regarded DNA studies to

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Ancient crocodilian named after Tolkien creature – Research News

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A new University of Florida study describes a 16-foot, 900-pound ancient species of crocodilian that swam in the same rivers as Titanoboa 60 million years ago in the world’s oldest-known rain forest. The newly named reptile, which has an unusually blunt snout for species in the dyrosaurids fa
can’t explain Evolution Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA

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Hollow trees host massive moth slumber parties – Research News

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Unlike social insects such as bees and ants, moths are generally loners. So, when Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov spotted a dozen glossy black Idia moths inside a hollow tree, he made a mental note. After he stumbled across 100 of the same species in another hollow
Once believed to be a single species, Idia lubricalis, DNA evidence suggests that

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Herbarium Management Course Syllabus – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

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Herbaria and Herbarium Specimens History of Herbaria Collection Use Protocols and Specimen Handling Guidelines Plant Specimen Collecting and Preparation: plant collecting (incl. legal considerations), identification, label preparation, sorting, pest control and fumigation. Preparation of Plant
Ancillary Collections: spirit, wood, seed, economic botany, dna, seed bank.

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Unlocking genetic data of rediscovered ‘hidden’ native Florida plant – Research News

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In 1947, a small package containing an unknown plant specimen arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium. For 37 years, the thorny stem and leaves sat pressed between pages of a yellowed newspaper, filed in a cabinet among the vast library of Florida plants, until University of Flori
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