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Centuries before countries such as the United Arab Emirates and China started building islands, the Calusa Indians living in southwest Florida were piling shells into massive heaps to construct their own water-bound towns. One island in particular, Mound Key, was the capital of the Calusa kingdom
it in such a way that supported a large population,” said Thompson, an associate professor

University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program that uses 3-D printed fossils and hands-on lessons to spark young learners’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Known as iDigFossils,
specimens they otherwise wouldn’t have access to,” said Bruce MacFadden, distinguished professor

Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient diets and the ocean’s past. An international team of scientists used cutting-edge technology to analyze proteins from these bones to help identif
Susan deFrance, study co-author and professor in the University of Florida department

The saying “Birds of a feather flock together” is being given new meaning by a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society b. Flocking birds often travel in groups made up of a single species, in which individuals are nearly indistinguishable from one another, as noted by
in multispecies flocks is something different, said lead author Rebecca Kimball, professor

Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched Wednesday, the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal includes digitized artifacts, image galleries, personal narratives and details of excavation sites. Unde
Lockwood Jr., Professor of Historical Archaeology.

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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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
predators and less competition from other species,” said Martin Zuschin, a paleontology professor

As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an ancient Mayan archaeological site in Guatemala. Determined to please her adviser, Thornton thoroughly examined the features of the bones, which dated to the Late Preclass
re-examine previously recovered bones, said Florida State University anthropology professor

About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking advantage of nectar-rich flowers that had co-evolved with bees. This single event led to the evolution of all butterflies. Scientists have known the precise timing of this event s
According to study co-author Pamela Soltis, a Florida Museum curator and distinguished professor

The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you envision safe and protective child care. But a new study on the 600-million-year history of these obscure animals highlights the import
currently know about bryozoans’ baseline biology, senior author Lee Hsiang Liow, a professor