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Shark attacks drop during coronavirus lockdown – Research News

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Shark attack numbers have sunk to dramatic lows, likely a side effect of closed beaches and widespread quarantines, according to experts at the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File. Only 18 unprovoked shark bites have been confirmed globally from Jan. 1 to June 18, down from 24
important, Bowling said, advising surfers to have a first aid kit and tourniquet on hand

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Systematics, evolution and biogeography of Campanulaceae – Cellinese Lab

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Campanulaceae are a large, cosmopolitan angiosperm clade with diverse pollinator adaptations including specialized floral morphologies and secondary pollen presentation mechanisms. We are investigating the the broad-scale relationships of this ca. 65 million year old clade. Along with the relationsh
Crowl, A., Visger, C., Mansion, G., Hand, R., Wu, H.

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Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the DNA of all of Earth’s known plants, animals, fungi and microbial eukaryotes over a period of 10 years. The team announced the initiative, known as the Earth BioGenome Project, in a p
This will allow the team to use thousands of organisms already on hand in museums

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‘Terror bird’ arrived in North America before land bridge – Research News

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Evidence from a study led by the Florida Museum of Natural History confirms that the carnivorous, seven-foot-tall „terror bird“ likely arrived in North America from South America several million years before a land bridge connected the two continents. Previously, scientists assumed the 330-pound, fl
The terror bird is shown in the lower left hand corner.Painting by Carl Buell “It

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Introducing K-12 teachers to our Panama fieldwork – Research News

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Over the past 4 million years, North American fauna migrated to South America via the Isthmus of Panama. Florida Museum scientists and K-12 educators recently made the same trek to dig up the past. A new $350,000 National Science Foundation grant is engaging Florida Museum of Natural History
memorization of facts, MacFadden said this is a good time for teachers to gain first-hand

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Scientific Illustrations – High School – Panama Canal Project (PCP PIRE)

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These lessons can be completed as a small continuous unit or you can take more time and spread it out amongst other units/lessons. Lessons & Teacher’s Notes Teacher Notes Scientific Illustration Handout – Helpful Tips: This is given to students at the beginning as a resource they will use t
gives you a good idea of what the original student wrote), students may need to hand

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Frolicking bears and other oddities – Research News

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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
Twenty years later he was back to witness first-hand the initial efforts to drain

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
of them, but that’s not the same as when they actually get to hold them in their hand

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Archaeology? Kids Dig It! – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/archaeology-kids-dig-it/

We’ve had a lot of visitors this year, with regularly scheduled Wednesday tours well attended through the season. But beginning in March, kid’s tours really bring the Calusa Heritage Trail to life. More than a dozen large school groups visited the site this spring, with an average group siz
our own island kids from Pine Island Elementary; they have lunches and water in hand

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