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Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men – stories long dismissed as myths. But a new study suggests Columbus may have been telling the truth. Using the equivalent of facial recognition technology,
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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

The island of Nihoa, a slice of jagged rock that juts out of the Pacific Ocean, is the sole refuge for a rediscovered species of native Hawaiian land snail previously presumed to be extinct. First recorded in 1923, Endodonta christenseni lacked a scientific name and description until now. It is l
Although DNA samples from E. christenseni and related species will help the researchers

You might think the buffest frogs would be high jumpers, but if you want shredded pecs, you should train like a burrowing frog. Though famously round, these diggers are the unsung bodybuilders of the frog world. We bring you tips from frog expert Rachel Keeffe, a doctoral student at the University o
extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong Evolution DNA

In the spring of 2010, Steve Manchester, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of paleobotany, and Fabiany Herrera, a University of Florida doctoral student studying biology, visited a site in Peru containing fossilized grape seeds in hopes of shedding new light on what the climate in South Amer
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Zuntini, A. R., T. Carruthers, O. Maurin, P. C. Bailey, K. Leempoel, G. E. Brewer, N. Epitawalage, E. Françoso, B. Gallego-Paramo, C. McGinnie, R. Negrão, S. R. Roy, L. Simpson, E. Toledo Romero, V. M. A. Barber, L. Botigué, J. J. Clarkson, R. S. Cowan, S. Dodsworth, M. G. Johnson, J. T. Kim, L. Pok
microbial diversity onto the phylogeny of associated plant species Genome-wide DNA

The inaugural Black in Natural History Museums Week, Oct. 17-23, is an online social media festival that acknowledges, unites and celebrates Black people who work in natural history museums. Inspired by the “Black in X” social media campaigns, the week begins with a virtual roll call: a chance fo
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In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out of the more than 7,000 living today, has true teeth on its lower jaw. The culprit, a large marsupial frog named Gastrotheca guentheri, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1882 for
DNA degrades over time in plants and animals stored in museum collections, and the

“This may look like brains but it is really strawberry.� You never know what you’re going to overhear at the Museum when scientists are visiting! It was wonderful to host our Women and Girls in Science Celebration at the Museum again after several years of virtual events. On Feb. 13, 2022, we invit
Visitors had a great time learning about fossils, bugs, brains, DNA and more at science

Seven tiny teeth tell the story of an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North and South America into modern-day Panama – the first fossil evidence for the existence of monkeys in North America. The find provides the oldest fossil evidence for the interchange of mammal
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