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If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails and the clams they hunt for food increased in abundance for several decades during the late 1800s and early 1900s, evidence of a vibrant and healthy ecosystem. Then, a
and less competition from other species,� said Martin Zuschin, a paleontology professor

Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking ware and earthen vessels. Archaeologist Ann Cordell has spent her entire career studying this material, from the oldest pottery made in North America 4,500 years ago t
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Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
Eyes’ kind of way and have gone almost full-blown cannibal,” said Patrick Krug, professor

Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in an unassuming brown or beige color, while others stand out in varied palettes with everything from neon pinks to electric blues. They’re called ribbon worms, and about 1,350 different species have
the iceberg compared to what’s really out there,â€� said Svetlana Maslakova, a professor

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
in a society,� said Jason von Meding, the executive director of GatorCorps and professor

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
often get called ‘brown, boring butterflies,’� said André Freitas, a biology professor

Ava Johnson Undergraduate volunteer I love all things insects, but especially Lepidoptera! I’ve been raising caterpillars since as long as I can remember, from swallowtails to monarchs to woolly bears and even hornworms. These creatures inspire me not only as a scientific curiosity, but they als
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Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine. The find precipitated in-depth fieldwork by archaeologists during the ’70s and ’80s’, yielding discoveries that raised the possibility of the site being Amer
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Ontocetus emmonsi Quick Facts Common Name: Emmon’s walrus Ontocetus emmonsi is an extinct species of walrus which inhabited the North Atlantic during the Pliocene. Fossils of Emmon’s walrus can be found in Florida, up the Eastern Atlantic coast, in Europe, and North Africa. This pattern is a
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As Becky Reichart pressed against one of the sleek, bleached, white rib bones of the fully rearticulated 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, one of the largest found in Florida, she commented, “They look delicate, but they’re actually really strong.� The bones tell the story of the snake’s life in the
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