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Frolicking bears and other oddities – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/frolicking-bears-and-other-oddities/

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken from the New York Weekly Sun. Unsigned, the article included a wonderful account of a visit to Turtle Mound, an archaeological site in modern Volusia County, just south of New Smyr
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Drawing dragons – Florida Museum Blog

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Dragons are everywhere. Rachel Keeffe knows this. She recently talked to UF News about dragons on the Game of Thrones series. If dragons could exist, what would they look like? How and where would they thrive? Rachel is currently a herpetology Ph.D. student at the Florida Museum/UF departm
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Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian life – Research News

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The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into the American melting pot before they were driven to the swamps of South Florida, say Florida Museum of Natural History researchers. In a search for clues to what life w
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Big-game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/big-game-hunters-not-climate-change-killed-off-sloths/

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

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/cellinese-majure-nsf-grants/

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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Historic Research – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/research/historic/

Historic Research Projects The UF Herbarium has a long history of research studies in diverse projects spanning traditional morphological plant systematics, floristics, plant anatomy, molecular analysis and pollination ecology. Many of the publications born from these projects are documented in our
NSF Award #1442280) View project vouchers in the UF Herbarium Catalog Flora and DNA

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Gray Ratsnake – Florida Snake ID Guide

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NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Gray Rat Snake, Oak Snake, White Oak Snake Basic description Most adult Gray Ratsnakes are about 42-72 inches (106-183 cm) in total length. Adults are light gray with darker gray blotches down the back. The belly is sandy-gray with dark square blotches. Juveniles
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the North American ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta)

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Help advance museum science in minutes with Notes from Nature – Florida Museum Blog

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If you have a computer, you can help move museum research forward in three minutes or less. Community scientists can use Notes from Nature, a digital platform funded by the National Science Foundation, to contribute to research around the world by transcribing handwritten information about museum
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NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/paulay-slapcinsky-marine-invertebrates-digitization/

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
photo The Florida Museum’s collection of marine invertebrate images, tissues and DNA

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