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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a…Drone! – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-adrone/

For those of you who spent time near the center from January to early March of this year, you might have noticed something buzzing around in the distance. Jen Green (South Florida Archaeology Collections Manager, FLMNH) and Daniel Spikowski (Calusa Land Trust) were a couple of the participant
Public Outreach and 3D-Site Models: Instead of flying the drone with the camera straight

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The yucca and the moth: How extreme weather impacts the timing of biological events – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-yucca-and-the-moth-how-extreme-weather-impacts-the-timing-of-biological-events/

Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to feed on their favorite host plant – across the natural world, the timing of biological events is so important it spawned its own scientific discipline: phenology. Much of ph
Florida in Gainesville – hope that by including extreme weather events in climate models

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Vaughn Shirey joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of butterflies and moths – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/vaughn-shirey-joins-florida-museum-of-natural-history-as-newest-curator-of-butterflies-and-moths/

We are excited to welcome our newest curator, Vaughn Shirey, to the Florida Museum of Natural History. Working in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Shirey will help study, grow and digitize our moth and butterfly collections. Shirey is a conservation biologist who uses museum s
scientist is compiling large and disparate datasets and sieving them through computer models

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‘Black in Natural History Museums Week’ coming to social media Oct. 17-23 – Florida Museum Blog

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/black-in-natural-history-museums-week-coming-to-social-media-oct-17-23/

The inaugural Black in Natural History Museums Week, Oct. 17-23, is an online social media festival that acknowledges, unites and celebrates Black people who work in natural history museums. Inspired by the “Black in X” social media campaigns, the week begins with a virtual roll call: a chance fo
how technology improves access to museum collections; and tips for finding role models

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Science Up Close: Fantastic Fossils – Exhibits

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/past-special-exhibit-fantastic-fossils-2022/

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
Scientists use CT scanning technology to see and create 3D models of the inside of

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Alumni – Ordway Lab of Ecosystem Conservation

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ordway-lab/alumni/

Juan Pablo Gomez PhD, Graduated Spring 2016, now postdoc fellow in Gainesville, FL. Species interact with the environment and with other species through their functional traits. However, species and, ultimately, functional traits are the result of an evolutionary history that can also be responsib
Sufficient insights on a mechanistic level should enable the construction of ecological models

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

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-primates-had-grooming-claws/

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
Models of the fossils are available on Morphosource, an open-access repository of

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Miniature frogs set record as first vertebrates to lose the ability to balance – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/miniature-frogs-set-record-as-first-vertebrates-to-lose-the-ability-to-balance/

Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and inch-long African frogs that spend their entire lives in and around the banks of small puddles. In fact, the title for the
through oVert, a four-year initiative among 18 institutions to create to create 3-D models

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New genus of tiny, iridescent snake from Philippines found in collection – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-iridescent-snake-from-philippines/

To be fair, the newly described Waray dwarf burrowing snake is pretty great at hiding. In its native habitat on the islands of Samar and Leyte in the Philippines, the snake usually surfaces only after heavy rains, similar to earthworms washing up on suburban sidewalks after a downpour. So, it
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