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Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which like
the dinosaurs, it had given rise to an incredible diversity of life found nowhere else

Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the classic cartoon may help children connect with nature, it popularizes the misconception that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent European settlemen
find a stain in one of the corners of the units that didn’t seem to match anything else

I have always loved to read, but it is a pastime that I seldom find time for these days. As my schedule this summer began filling up—classes, interning, tutoring, general life stuff, etc. I realized, much to my dismay, this summer was not going to serve as an opportunity to catch up on the titles
the same geological epoch we exist in now, the Holocene—is it weird for anyone else

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for overlooking it in favor of Cuba’s prismatic parrots. But looks aren’t everything. For decades, this u
anticipate it being so unique from an evolutionary perspective relative to anything else

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
“When you see people coming from somewhere else to help get your community back to

Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species currently known to exist are considered threatened or endangered at the state or federal level, and nearly all scrub mints grow in areas that are being rapidly developed or converted to
framework of harsh conditions but lost the ability to live just about anywhere else

For a few weeks each year, dozens of people stop their everyday activities to put on clothes they don’t mind getting dirty, drive to the middle of nowhere and dig in the dirt and mud for fossils. Neither professional archaeologists nor paleontologists, the volunteers are like angels for the Flori
He was instructed to work in an area away from the spot where everyone else was finding

Last week, Glaucia Del-Rio officially stepped into her role as curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. She replaces retired curator David Steadman, who held the position between 1995 and 2021. Del-Rio was raised in São Paulo, Brazil, a sprawling urban complex with high-ri
began looking for it all over the São Paulo state and couldn’t find it anywhere else

F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service have trekked diligently through forest preserves on Key Largo in search of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly, more often than not coming back with more mosquit
hardwood hammocks, hyperdiverse forests that harbor several rare species found nowhere else

When Jeff Kneebone was a college student in 2002, his research involved a marine mystery that has stumped curious scientists for the last several decades. That mystery had to do with thorny skates in the North Atlantic. In some parts of their range, individuals of this species come in two distinct s
could identify the large males and females, because they’re bigger than anything else