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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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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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The frosted elfin is a small brown butterfly about the size of a nickel. Despite its unremarkable appearance, this rare butterfly has the notable achievement of contributing to its own conservation by helping make a beer. Brewers from First Magnitude Brewing Co. and scientists from the Florida Mu
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To pair with the rest of our educational content in each Earth to Florida newsletter, we bring you monthly updates on statewide environmental news. Read on below to see what we found over the past month: 10 Florida Stories to Watch A recent UF study found that a popular herbicide, glyphosate
While phosphorus is essential for life and vital to DNA, agriculture, and food production

The saying “Birds of a feather flock together� is being given new meaning by a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society b. Flocking birds often travel in groups made up of a single species, in which individuals are nearly indistinguishable from one another, as noted by
Now that we can study DNA, we’re realizing they often look alike because they live

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently welcomed Arthur Porto as its first curator of artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity. Prior to joining the museum, Porto was an assistant professor of biology at Louisiana State University where he used machine learning and image-b
ongoing revolution in genomics — the study of an organism’s full complement of DNA

Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched Wednesday, the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal includes digitized artifacts, image galleries, personal narratives and details of excavation sites. Unde
Florida cultural heritage sites damaged by Hurricane Ian Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA

It was a chilly February day. A handful of Florida teachers gathered on the edge of a dirt pit in rural Levy County. Wind whipped across the open landscape, toying with scarves and making the little flags scattered around the pit dance on their long stems. Florida’s weak winter sunlight was sharp in
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