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With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant to create a nationwide network of amateur and professional paleontologists. Fossil clubs across the country function independently and do not
experiences with digital scientific artifacts, said Kent Crippen, UF associate professor

Christopher Columbus. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. The Great Navigator. Renown as the champion of the belief that the earth was round. The man who sought the riches of the Far East by sailing to the west, and who happened instead upon a New World. The man who discovered America.  How accurate is the po
As Professor Carl Sauer noted in The Early Spanish Main: “Columbus had originated

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are leading a worldwide study to inventory the largest order of freshwater fishes with the help of a $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant, received during the summer of 2010, is part of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventor
Study co-investigator Jonathan Armbruster, an associate professor and curator of

The selected projects are intended to communicate Earth systems science research to either K-12 students and teachers or lifelong learners.  
“What had more of an impact than the topic was the enthusiasm my professor had in

A Florida Museum researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of origin for all living marsupials. The study, to be published in PLoS ONE on Dec. 16, shows that pe
and varied fossil record,” said lead author Inés Horovitz, an assistant adjunct professor

A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described this week by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology was likely a food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known. Working with scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Instit
Brochu, a paleontologist and associate professor in geosciences at the University

A new book by a Florida Museum researcher challenges traditional theories about the exchange of prehistoric pottery and its value among ancient peoples in north Florida and southern Georgia. “The Swift Creek Gift: Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast” by Neill Wallis, an assistant curator of arc
prehistoric pottery in eastern North America, said Thomas Pluckhahn, an associate professor

Archaeohippus blackbergi Quick Facts Common Name: Blackberg’s dwarf horse Archaeohippus is a genus of three-toed horses that lived 19 to 13 million years ago in North America. Two of the five known species lived in Florida. Archaeohippus blackbergi was small, weighing approximately between 5
Blackberg, a professor of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University.

If you have a computer, you can help move museum research forward in three minutes or less. Community scientists can use Notes from Nature, a digital platform funded by the National Science Foundation, to contribute to research around the world by transcribing handwritten information about museum
That’s why we need the public’s help,” said Julie Allen, assistant professor at the

Teaching in the Caribbean islands Our collecting throughout the Caribbean has taken us to many islands. Before each trip we inquire about the local schools and arrange a trip to visit one or more. These trips are used to explain to the students why we are visiting their island, and why we value the
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