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New study shows scientists improve communication, education skills after working with teachers – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-study-shows-scientists-improve-communication-education-skills-after-working-with-teachers/

Every summer from 2012 to 2016, Bruce MacFadden and a team of scientists accompanied K-12 teachers on an expedition to collect fossils around the Panama Canal. During this National Science Foundation funded professional development program, educators learned from paleontologists how to identify foss
But a new case study led by MacFadden and published in the journal Evolution: Education

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Morphological Diversity & Evolution – Blackburn Lab

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/blackburn-lab/research/morphological-diversity-evolution/

We have a number of active research projects that investigate the structure, function, and evolution of anatomy in amphibians and reptiles. Not only are we interested to document patterns of anatomical diversity, we also seek to understand the processes that generated variation across species. Fo
From 2017–2023, we led the oVert (openVertebrate) Thematic Collections Network

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TESI Supports CAPE Pilot Program for Retirees at Oak Hammock – Thompson Earth Systems Institute

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/blog/tesi-supports-cape-pilot-program-for-retirees-at-oak-hammock/

This summer, TESI, in conjunction with the CLEO Institute Climate Speaker Program, is helping support lifelong learners at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida (UF). Community Action Projects for the Environment (CAPE), an initiative housed at the UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Martha Monroe, who led the development of the CAPE curriculum. “We have assembled

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Florida scientists tag deep-sea shark from submersible – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-tag-shark-from-submersible/

Florida scientists have tagged a deep-sea shark from a submersible, a historic first that took three expeditions, more than 2,000 pounds of bait, custom-built spear guns and over a dozen tries. After multiple attempts were scuppered by bad weather, misfiring spear guns, an interloping grouper and
Afterward, they embarked on a deep-sea expedition led by Grubbs in the Bahamas with

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Atlantic corals unique, cannot be replaced if lost – Research News

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The discovery that many Caribbean corals are only distantly related to their counterparts in the Pacific Ocean makes the threats of pollution and global warming trends even more serious, says Florida Museum of Natural History Malacology Curator Gustav Paulay. Paulay, a member of the team that mad
The research was conducted by an international team of scientists led by the Scripps

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Women of the Everglades – Exhibits

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/online/women-everglades/

In the early 1900s, three influential Florida women, inspired by three different causes, laid the foundation for Everglades conservation. Inspired Causes The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, known as the Everglades, would look a lot different today if not for the efforts of t
Douglas was a celebrated defender of the Everglades, and her relentless efforts led

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Rodent extinctions in Hispaniola may have been caused by humans – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rodent-extinctions-in-hispaniola-may-have-been-caused-by-humans/

The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest rodent diversity in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for thousands of years. Today, only one rodent species remains within the island’s two countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and its prospects for survival are uncerta
in the fossil record, authors of a new study pinpoint the historical events that led

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Cosmic pearls: Fossil clams contain evidence of ancient meteorite – Research News

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Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial ob
undergraduate when he discovered the microtektites during a 2006 summer fieldwork project led

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