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

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/digital-records-of-preserved-plants-and-animals-change-how-scientists-explore-the-world/

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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Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets baseline for future research – Research News

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Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
Portell has led fieldwork on the naval station since 2007.

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Is Alaska’s first new butterfly species in decades an ancient hybrid? – Research News

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Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species of hybrid butterfly from the state’s interior is proving that theory correct. Belonging to a group known as the Arctics, the Tanana Arctic, Oeneis tanana, is the first new butterfly
history of arctic North America and the evolution of hybrid species, said Warren, who led

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Florida Museum’s new permanent exhibit about water set to open in 2024 – Pressroom

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/pressroom/2023/02/02/new-water-exhibit/

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History has finished the design and development stage of its newest permanent exhibit, “Water Shapes Florida.â€� Construction is set to begin later this month, with an anticipated open date of spring 2024. The iconic “Northwest Florida: Waterw
A field cabin replica, complete with simulated weather patterns outside its LED screen

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Ceibal – Environmental Archaeology

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Ceibal Archaeological Project Project Zooarchaeologist: Ashley Sharpe What can animal bones and shells tell us about the rise of Maya society? With a history spanning some 2,000 years, the site of Ceibal (formerly „Seibal“) has one of the longest occupation sequences anywhere in the Maya are
900) to better understand how political tensions between Ceibal and its neighbors led

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Moth workshop for kids, anyone? – Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/andrei-sourakov/activities/moth-workshop-for-kids-anyone/

Recently, we conducted a hands-on science event at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Ocala, about an hour south of Gainesville. One of us (Sourakov) already had a talk prepared about moth biology in conjunction with the launch of his 2022 book, The Lives of Moths, so we
Take home messages: The final stretch of the presentation led us into a discussion

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Florida Museum researcher advances to finals in multimillion-dollar biodiversity competition – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florida-museum-researcher-advances-to-finals-in-multimillion-dollar-biodiversity-competition/

Over the course of four weeks this summer, a motley crew of biologists, engineers, entrepreneurs and programmers gathered at predetermined sites within Windsor Nature Park, a 185-acre tropical rainforest located in the heart of Singapore. They’d traveled from all over the world to participate in a o
House is a member of Team Waponi, which is led by Thomas Walla, a professor of biology

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Jennifer Green joins the Florida Museum as new archaeology collections manager – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/jennifer-green-joins-the-florida-museum-as-new-archaeology-collections-manager/

Jennifer Green grew up surrounded by the sub-tropical diversity of Southern Florida, where she spent most of her time exploring outside. Interested in archaeology from an early age, she found a natural progression to studying the Indigenous cultures that once inhabited the landscape around her. “
That community-building has led to the discovery of some of the oldest archaeological

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Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems – Research News

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Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like before the arrival of humans. This is especially true of coastal ecosystems, many of which had already been drastically altered by pollution and overharvesti
currently an assistant professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, led

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Our Involvement – Sawfish Conservation & Research

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sawfish/conservation/fpsr-involvement/

At the Florida Program for Shark Research, our efforts focus primarily on the study and conservation of Florida’s current remaining sawfish species, the smalltooth sawfish. The smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) is one of five sawfish species living in tropical and subtropical rivers, lakes, and
This severe decline in population led to two petitions: the Ocean Conservancy’s 1999

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