Avery, George 1997 Pots as Packaging: The Spanish olive jar and Andalusian Transatlantic Commercial Activity, 16th-18th centuries. Dissertation (Ph. D.)–University of Florida. Ayers, John 1988 Blue-and-White and the Origins of Ming Porcelain Style. In In Pursuit of the Dragon, Traditions and T
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A Florida Museum researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of origin for all living marsupials. The study, to be published in PLoS ONE on Dec. 16, shows that pe
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When Hercules was tasked by Eurystheus with cleaning up after King Augeas‘ cattle in a single day, he had his work cut out for him. But Hercules, being not only a superhero but also a wiz, figured out a painless solution and diverted a nearby river so that its waters would do the work for him. All a
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The City Nature Challenge began as a friendly competition between two California museums in 2016 and has grown into an international celebration of biodiversity and community science. A few years ago, we joined several local partners to host a local CNC for Alachua County and invite our commu
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The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone from a frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus, also known as rain frogs or co
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Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands. The teeth, excavated in northwest Puerto Rico, belong to a previously unknown rodent genus and species, now named Caribeomys merzeraudi. About the size of
curator of mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los
I know what you are going to say: “Moths have no blood.” That’s splitting hairs though—moths have liquid called hemolymph that performs similar function as our blood; it’s not red because there is no hemoglobin. In moths, lymph delivers nutrients throughout the body, while oxygen is delivered via th
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Museum Resources Department-wide funding Austin and Bullen Awards Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowed Fellowship Dr. Madelyn M. Lockhart Fellowship Endowment Mary Ross Endowment Find out more: FLMNH Student Awards Discipline-specific funding Invertebrate Paleontology Jon L. a
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Dr. William F. Keegan is Chairman and Curator of Anthropology, Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History. He also serves as Associate Director for Research and Collections. He holds affiliate appointments as Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Latin American Studies at th
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Despite the COVID pandemic, the research staff and graduate students at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity were able to write up past research and to conduct other meaningful scientific exchanges of information. This unusual time in history, resulted in some very cool studies fin
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