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Digital records of preserved plants and animals change how scientists explore the world – Research News

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There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
A group of researchers, led by scientists at the Field Museum, the Florida Museum

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The Write Stuff – Randell Research Center

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Imagine the opportunity to step into the life of your favorite author. And imagine that he shares with you his writing techniques and life experiences. Hard to imagine? Not if the author is Randy Wayne White and you are one of the 20 aspiring and published writers who attended his writer’s workshop
After everyone was introduced and mingled while enjoying refreshments, Randy led

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96-million-year-old fossil pollen sheds light on early pollinators – Research News

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The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees‘ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by Florida Museum and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and
combined with known structural changes occurring in flowering plants at this time, led

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New Frogmouth bird genus found in South Pacific Solomon Islands – Research News

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Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in

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Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville – Research News

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Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine’s fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of slave raiders descending from the Carolinas. You pack in haste. You leave m
The test excavations led Waters to believe they were digging in the Potano village

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Megan Ennes named director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute – Research News

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Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
recalled. “But it was the coolest experience I had ever had.� That experience led

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Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand – Research News

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Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
This has led to misidentifications of fish that were actually undescribed species

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Advait Jukar joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of vertebrate paleontology – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus Bruce MacFadden, who worked in the position for 47 years before retiring last month. Jukar primarily studies the fossils of large mammals that went extinct af
and Jukar quickly found himself working in a herpetology lab, which eventually led

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Disney awards funding to UF butterfly, sea turtle conservation projects – Research News

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As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
together to make an impact for wildlife, people and the planet.� The programs are led

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Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium – Research News

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Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium, also known by the acronym FLAS, is the oldest and largest plant collection in the state and among the largest Neotrop
Majure is also a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $3.6 million grant led

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