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Florida Museum 100th Anniversary Gala – Florida Museum

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/100th-anniversary-gala/

In 1917, state legislation creating the Florida State Museum was signed into law. In the past century, the Museum has flourished, both as an educational resource to curious minds, and as a research center for local ecology and global biodiversity. We’ve been known as the Florida Museum of Natural Hi
100th Anniversary Gala sponsors for contributing towards the Florida Museum’s $1 million

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Duke Energy Foundation grant to fund pollinator research – Pressroom

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/pressroom/2017/08/03/duke-energy-foundation-grant-to-fund-pollinator-research/

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a Duke Energy Foundation grant for pollinator research related to vegetation management in utility rights of way. Jaret Daniels, director of the museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a University
and research facility, Dickinson Hall, houses most of the museum’s more than 40 million

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Nicolas Gauthier leveraging AI to increase the value of museum collections – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/nicolas-gauthier-leveraging-ai-to-increase-the-value-of-museum-collections/

Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
networks of prehistoric communities in the American Southwest, he analyzed more than 4 million

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Head lice research supports direct contact between modern, archaic humans – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/head-lice-research-supports-direct-contact-between-modern-archaic-humans/

New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to a study lead by a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. The study sheds light on a hotly debated topic in evolutionary biology: the origin of modern Homo sapi
ancestors of our species, Homo sapiens, diverged from other archaic humans about 1.2 million

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Bountiful harvest – Research News

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As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked forward to a good harvest. They sure weren’t thinking about rhinoceroses. But after their plow turned up broken bits of what appeared to be bones from a large animal, they called Richard Hulbert
representing about three dozen animal species that lived in North Florida about eight million

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Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest-known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family – Research News

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Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species
The eruptions occurred intermittently for nearly a million years, and they repeatedly

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Disney awards funding to UF butterfly, sea turtle conservation projects – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/disney-funds-butterfly-sea-turtle-conservation/

As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conservation programs to nearly $5.2 million

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Fossil rodent teeth add North American twist to Caribbean mammals’ origin story – Research News

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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
Caribbean’s smallest known rodent and one of the region’s oldest, dating back about 29 million

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