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between a worm and… Apr 19, 2023 David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor
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between a worm and… Apr 19, 2023 David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor
On display Sept. 23, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018, Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum celebrated the Museum’s rich history and featured objects that reveal stories about everything from human health to prehistoric life to invasive species. Each Museum collection was asked to contribute
But our roots go back to 1891, when a professor at Florida Agricultural College,
Fossil evidence shows that the two-horned rhinoceros once roamed the plains of North America in great numbers. The bones and tooth wear seen in this bone bed reveal a mix of juveniles, mature adults and older individuals. Summary Rhinoceros Bone Bed (Menoceras) From Western Nebraska Lived ~20
Bruce MacFadden Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology* Distinguished Professor* Florida
Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
of fish diversity,� said Page, who is also a University of Florida affiliate professor
Robert J. Austin Bob is Vice President and Principal Investigator of Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida and a M.A. in Public Archaeology from the University of South Florida. He has worked as a Florida archaeologist and lithic
Susan D. deFrance Susan is a Professor in the Anthropology Department, University
Like many children, Rachel Narducci gained a love and appreciation of dinosaurs from the movie “Jurassic Park.� Unlike most kids she turned that love of ancient life —and more importantly, fossils — into her career. On Sept. 12, Narducci officially stepped into her new role as collections manager
He later worked as an assistant professor, then an associate professor of geology
Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
She was recently one of 10 faculty members across UF awarded a 2023 Assistant Professor
The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus Bruce MacFadden, who worked in the position for 47 years before retiring last month. Jukar primarily studies the fossils of large mammals that went extinct af
“The developmental biology professor was also interested in dinosaurs and fossils
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone fragments. But a new study of the most complete s
including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,� said Sargis, professor
Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Julie Allen recently received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the University of Florida biology department. Allen won the award for her paper on mutualistic bacteria, which live in some insects. The article appeared in the academic journal PLoS ON
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