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The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. Victor Perez, a geological scie
a technique known as anchored hybrid enrichment, he was able to extract as much DNA

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making Evolution Vast DNA

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
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While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history. Whitten, a botanist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium, glues pressed plants onto archival paper and stores them as specimens in the museum’s collection. He
Although dried herbarium specimens preserve many plant features, including DNA, only

Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy, but the origin of its cat-attracting chemical is a remarkable example of evolutionary innovation. While the compound nepetalactone drives two-thirds of cats batty, likely by mimicking sex pheromones, its real purpose
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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

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

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

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

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.