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Doug Jones receives distinguished service award from American Alliance of Museums – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/doug-jones-receives-distinguished-service-award-from-american-alliance-of-museums/

The American Alliance of Museums has selected Doug Jones as this year’s recipient of its award for distinguished service to museums. The award is considered to be the “most prestigious in the museum profession” and recognizes individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions througho
invertebrate paleontology collections in the United States, which now exceeds seven million

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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
diversity and distribution Cellinese is a principal investigator on a five-year, $1.5 million

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DNA duplication linked to the origin and evolution of pine trees and their relatives – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/gymnosperm-origin-evolution/

Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often duplicate their entire genome and hang on to the added genetic baggage. All those extra genes are then free to mutate and produce new physical traits, hastening the tempo of evolution
gymnosperms might have directly contributed to the origin of the group over 350 million

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Drill holes in fossil shells point to bigger predators picking on small prey – Research News

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The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather than using their added heft to pursue larger quarry, new research shows. The study, published today in
percent of shell area drilled by predators increased 67-fold over the past 500 million

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Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world’s most ecologically diverse bats – Research News

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Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the more than 200 species of leaf-nosed bats, there are those that hunt insects; drink nectar; eat fruit; munch pollen; suck blood; and prey on frogs, birds, lizards and even other bats. T
They’re also the oldest bat fossils from Central America, preserved 20-million years

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