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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
plants in the New World tropics The UF Herbarium is leading a four-year, $1.5 million

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Earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue found in ‘weird and wonderful’ extinct amphibians – Research News

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Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new Science study shows. Despite having lizardlike claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their li
years, dying out only about 2 million years ago.

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Get to know Florida’s fossil pearls – Research News

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Perhaps you have worn a string of pearls around your neck, paid for a diver to retrieve what you hope is a lucky shell or recognize these lustrous gems as your birth stone. But have you ever wondered where these iconic minerals come from, what makes a pearl a true pearl, and how a pearl can become a
The oldest known fossil pearls are over 200 million years old, but pearls date back

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Alligator Fossils at Montbrook – Research News

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Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses fossils of alligators and other animals found at the Montbrook dig site near Williston, Florida. His team compares the prehistoric alligator fossils to the bones of today’s alligators through digital modeling and sh
Research at the University of Florida by Olivia Stultz • June 7, 2019 A 5.5-million-year-old

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