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Two scientists receive Carr Medal for turtle conservation efforts – Research News

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This year’s winners of the Archie F. Carr Medal, which honors the late conservationist Archie Carr, are the first of his former students to receive the award. The Florida Museum of Natural History honored Karen Bjorndal and Peter Pritchard with the 2017 Archie F. Carr Medal Nov. 15 for promoting
coming to UF, she has managed donations and contracts totaling more than $12.5 million

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Florida Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection – Research News

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Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes what it takes to create and build a museum marine invertebrate collection. The Florida Museum’s nationally renowned collection is also the country’s fastest growing. Paulay also explains a museum project
All together the collection holds close to half a million lots of specimens or representing

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Science Up Close: Fantastic Fossils – Exhibits

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Remember this? Walk down memory lane with us to look at past special exhibits we’ve enjoyed here at the Florida Museum! While this exhibit has moved on to other places, we treasured the opportunity to learn and explore. Find out what exhibits are currently here at the Museum: Science Up
collection, both catalogued and uncatalogued, is estimated to house around 7.5 million

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Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails – Research News

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Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an evolutionary head-scratcher. Now, new fossil evidence shows that ancient primates – including one of the oldest known, Teilhardina brandti
were found in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, which was home to this ancient primate 56 million

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Paleontologists find first fossil monkey in North America – but how did it get here? – Research News

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Seven tiny teeth tell the story of an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North and South America into modern-day Panama – the first fossil evidence for the existence of monkeys in North America. The find provides the oldest fossil evidence for the interchange of mammal
of Panama was formed and animals began crossing between the continents about 3.5 million

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How a century of fear turned deadly for sharks – Research News

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Before the summer of 1916, there was still debate about whether sharks could kill humans. Most people were not even sure if a shark could bite a human. One of them was New York multimillionaire Hermann Oelrichs, who offered a $500 reward in 1891 for anyone who proved a shark attacked a human. Tha
Snyder Even though a person has about a one in 3.7 million chance of being killed

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