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New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren – Research News

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Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12. The international team studying the butterfly genus Zischkaia named one of the nine new species after Andy Warren, senior collections manager of the Florida M
2016, Warren traveled to Brazil and collected several individual specimens that led

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Attuned to loons: Birders track an obscure Florida flyway – Research News

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An hour after sunrise, Andrew Kratter stands in the dew-soaked grass of an East Gainesville graveyard, watching the sky for what looks like a bowling pin with wings – the common loon, Gavia immer. Kratter, manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s ornithology collection, has scouted for
A second group, led by longtime loon researcher Paul Spitzer, records loons flying

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Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA hoarding and kleptomania – Research News

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Ferns are notorious for containing massive amounts of DNA and an excessively large number of chromosomes. Defying all expectations, a fern no larger than a dinner plate currently holds the title for highest chromosome count, with a whopping 720 pairs crammed into each of its nuclei. This penchant of
Comparisons to genomes from other groups also led to the surprise discovery that

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Expansion of Missions and Ranches – St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City

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By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
Franciscan protests about this treatment, these onerous obligations, among others, led

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Talk March 9 by Dr. Wesley Stoner: Social Identification and Differentiation through Ceramic Style in Formative Central Mexico – Ceramic Technology Lab

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Social Identification and Differentiation through Ceramic Style in Formative Mexico March 9, 2021, 1:00 PM EST Associate Professor Wesley Stoner Department of Anthropology University of Arkansas The Ceramic Analysis Exchange is a collaborative effort between students and faculty from the La
broader settlement trend analysis provide the data to understand the mechanisms that led

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Creativity Flowed Like Water – Events

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Would anyone want to paint at the Museum after hours? In the wake of opening our newest permanent exhibit, Water Shapes Florida, we wanted to invite amateur artists into the Museum to explore watercolor painting techniques and our exhibits in a quiet space after hours. With snacks and wine (or mockt
Led by Dale Johnson, our artistic team welcomed excited guests to explore iconic

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Evolution of Terrestrial Locomotion – Ichthyology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/terrestrial-locomotion-evolution-cave-angelfish/

At first glance, the Cave Angelfish, Cryptotora thamicola, doesn’t seem that different from other cave fishes. It’s blind, it lives in caves, and it only grows to about an inch and a half long at adulthood. You certainly wouldn’t expect it to be able to climb up waterfalls. How does this small pi
robust pelvic girdle is living evidence of the evolutionary stepping-stones that led

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Megan Ennes: Director & Associate Curator of Museum Education – Thompson Earth Systems Institute

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Director & Associate Curator, Museum Education Phone: 352-273-2006 Email: mennes@floridamuseum.ufl.edu Dr. Megan Ennes is TESI’s Director and the associate curator (professor) of museum education in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. She is the author of mor
environmental civic engagement for K-12 students and undergraduates, and scientist-led

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Remembering lifelong paleontology expert S. David Webb – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History is saddened to announce the death of S. David Webb, former distinguished research curator emeritus of vertebrate paleontology and University of Florida professor. Webb served as curator from 1964 to 2003 and authored more than 100 scientific publications cove
Webb’s enthusiasm for paleontology led him to develop and teach a vertebrate paleontology

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Thomas Farm – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Thomas Farm University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality GI001 Location About 8 miles north-northeast of Bell, Gilchrist County, Florida; 29.86° N, 82.83° W. Age Early Miocene Epoch; early Hemingfordian land mammal age About 18 million years old Basis of Age Biochronology (an
Museum of Comparative Zoology field crews led by Ted White conducted the first large

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