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Only eat oysters in months with an ‘r’? Rule of thumb is at least 4,000 years old – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/oysters-in-r-months-rule-4000-years-old/

Foodie tradition dictates only eating wild oysters in months with the letter „r“ – from September to April – to avoid watery shellfish, or worse, a nasty bout of food poisoning. Now, a new study suggests people have been following this practice for at least 4,000 years. An analysis of a large she
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Florida wildflowers and pollinators get a boost with two grants – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florida-wildflowers-and-pollinators-get-a-boost-with-two-grants/

The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History was recently awarded two grants to help support pollinators in Florida. The Florida Department of Transportation has set aside $155,002 for the team to plant and monitor thousands of milkweeds along roads in North Florida, and Duke Energy Flor
Solar farms are a model for mixed-use land management The expansion of solar farms

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Historic Digital Imaging – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/collections/type/hist-digital-imaging/

Some of the digital images produced from the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) specimens were prepared using several types of scanners and digital cameras which are no longer in use. These are summarized below. The earliest efforts were supported by the University of Florida Libraries Digital
Digital images of plant materials taken with consumer model digital cameras prior

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Move over, armadillos. There’s a new bone-plated mammal in town – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/move-over-armadillos-theres-a-new-bone-plated-mammal-in-town/

Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, dinosaurs and fish, mammals long ago traded in their ancestral suit of armor for a layer of insulating hair. Armadillos, with their protective and flexible shell of imbricated bon
Researchers hoping to find a model for human tissue regeneration have begun mapping

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Funding awarded for research on bagworms, bubonic plague, ancient mammals and a repository of changing seasons – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/funding-awarded-for-research-on-bagworms-bubonic-plague-ancient-mammals-and-a-repository-of-changing-seasons/

Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and collaborating institutions have been collectively awarded $2,837,441 in funding from the National Science Foundation this month. Awards were distributed to faculty members in archaeology, vertebrate paleontology, Lepidoptera, biodiversity info
information gained during the project will then be used to create a predictive model

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Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil species – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/turtle-shells-decode-links-between-modern-fossil-species/

Imagine that Labradors and golden retrievers died out a million years ago, leaving only fossilized skeletons behind. Without the help of DNA, how could we determine that a fossil Labrador, a fossil retriever and a modern Chihuahua all belong to the same species, Canis lupus familiaris? And could we
coordinates, “like a connect-the-dots puzzle,” she said, which created a more complete model

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Ode to Pat: A Biography of Patricia Crandon Randell – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/ode-to-pat-a-biography-of-patricia-crandon-randell/

Patricia (Pat) Crandon was born in Miami, Florida, at the start of the “Roaring Twenties” on February 12, 1920. Her father, Charles Henry Crandon, a Dade County, Florida, Commissioner from 1929 to 1949, was admired for negotiating, prior to WWII, the gift of over 800 acres of land on Biscayne Key, M
1940, at the age of 20, Pat moved to New York City and became a successful fashion model

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Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in A.D. 400 – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/caribbean-children-grocery-shopping/

Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food” eaten in times when other resources were lacking. Now, a University of Florida study suggests these shells may be evidence of children helping with the grocery shopping
first to document child labor in an archaeological context, provides an important model

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TESI Grant Recipients Raise Awareness about Invasive Species While Inspiring a Love for Ants – Thompson Earth Systems Institute

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/blog/bringing-awareness-to-elementary-school-students-about-the-risk-of-invasive-species-and-inspiring-a-love-for-ants/

Ants offer a window into the scale of the invasive species problem and Florida hosts 12 of the worst invasive ant species worldwide.
Although discussed during the lesson, but not as part of the intended ant model,

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Building a roadmap to bioengineer plants that produce their own nitrogen fertilizer – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/building-a-roadmap-to-bioengineer-plants-that-produce-their-own-nitrogen-fertilizer/

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world’s growing population, but they are also costly, harm ecosystems and require a lot of energy to manufacture. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to make their own nitrogen with the help of bacteria. A new study helps explain how they
“Breeding and crop improvement efforts often focus on a single model species, which

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