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Orange Blossom – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Spaniards brought citrus to the Americas in the 15th century and orange trees became common in Spanish colonial gardens. Citrus farming has since become important to Florida’s economy – the vast majority destined for orange juice. Summary Orange Blossom (Citrus sinensis) From Alachua Co., Flori
consisted of 8,000 growers, who cultivated over 665,000 acres of land and produced 224 million

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Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people – Research News

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The history of the Caribbean’s original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology. An international team led by Harvard Medical School’s David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the l
smaller than previously thought – likely in the tens of thousands, rather than the million

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Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows – Research News

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Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot� within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which like
likely fossilized just before the asteroid impact that decimated the dinosaurs 66 million

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Scientist wins NSF CAREER Award for genetic plant research – Research News

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Nico Cellinese, assistant curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History herbarium and informatics, has received a prestigious $865,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support Cellinese’s research on genetic diversity in the flowering plant group Campanulac
During an event 5.9 million years ago known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the

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Earliest horses show past global warming affected mammal body size – Research News

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These days, climate change is a hot topic. What will happen as temperatures rise more rapidly than humans have documented in modern history? Will birds and mammals flock or will they be able to acclimate? Who will become extinct? In recent years, scientists have strived to understand the a
warming event known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum that occurred about 56 million

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Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong – Research News

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Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, and if that seems like an odd pairing, there’s a reason why. Today, there
life that traced the sloth lineage all the way back to their origin more than 35 million

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Gunn Farm Mine – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Gunn Farm Mine University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality GD006 Location Gunn Farm Mine is located about 7 miles (11.2 km) north of Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida, to the east of Willacoochee Creek and just south of the Florida-Georgia state line. 30.70º N; 84.54º W. Age Middle M
Middle Miocene Epoch; early Barstovian (Barstovian 1) land mammal age 16-15 million

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