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Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers – Research News

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Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of resources, bulbs can hunker down during disasters and spring up faster than other plants when conditions turn balmy. The bigger the bulb, the more nutrients a plant has in times of need. But bulb size
His curiosity led to one of the first studies of the evolution and ecology of bulb

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Annisa Karim joins Randell Research Center as new operations manager – Research News

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Annisa Karim has always nurtured a fondness for the natural world. In her hometown of Nairobi, Kenya, Karim’s father took her and her sister to nearby national parks almost every weekend, instilling a deep appreciation for nature and laying the foundation for her future career in conservation biolog
entirely new array of ecosystems in which to deepen her regard that ultimately led

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At 45 feet long, ‘Titanoboa’ snake ruled the Amazon – Research News

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Florida Museum researchers‘ discovery of a giant fossilized snake in Colombia reveals a picture of warmer tropics ruled by beasts larger than anyone imagined. The largest snake the world has ever known – as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car – ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 mi
imagination, but reality has exceeded the fantasies of Hollywood,” said Bloch, who co-led

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Archaeologists use X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America’s colonial past – Research News

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Key points Iron artifacts from early Spanish expeditions in North America often look too similar to tell apart, making it difficult to establish the exact routes that were taken. In a new study, archaeologists analyzed iron artifacts spanning more than 400 years of American history using X-r
soldier who helped conquer Nicaragua, overthrow the Inca empire in Peru and famously led

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

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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

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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

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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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