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Feasting at a Cocoa Beach pizza parlor grease bin gave one northern curly-tailed lizard a record-breaking case of constipation. Mouthfuls of insects, an anole and greasy sand congealed into an unpassable glob of poop nearly 80% of the animal’s total body mass – the largest known feces-to-body-mass r
tolerance and adaptability in the lab of Christina Romagosa, assistant research professor

Two new species of truffles were recently discovered on the roots of pecan trees in Florida orchards. The good news is that you can eat them — the bad news is that you wouldn’t want to. While Tuber brennemanii and Tuber floridanum are edible “true” truffles, in the same genus as the fragrant unde
will likely discourage people from eating them, said Matthew Smith, an associate professor

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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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

Shiny amber jewelry and a mucky Florida swamp have given scientists a window into an ancient ecosystem that could be anywhere from 15 million to 130 million years old. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin made the landmark discovery t
Gene Kritsky, editor of the journal American Entomologist and a biology professor

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

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

The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees‘ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by Florida Museum and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and
in the evolution of flowering plants,” said David Dilcher, a graduate research professor

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
Mark Hafner, a professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University who

A new study co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher provides the first direct chronological test of sequence stratigraphy, a powerful tool for exploring Earth’s natural resources. The model allows geologists to better understand how sedimentary rocks are related to one another in time and
researchers tested includes changes occurring today, said Carlton Brett, a geology professor