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Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-have-figured-out-how-extinct-giant-ground-sloths-got-so-big-and-where-it-all-went-wrong/

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, and if that seems like an odd pairing, there’s a reason why. Today, there
Long after their ground-dwelling relatives had gone extinct everywhere else, two

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Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/crawling-out-of-history-the-grand-turk-tortoise/

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.
Nowhere else in the Caribbean have the bones of sea turtles been found in such abundance

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Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/floridas-indians-from-ancient-times-to-the-present/

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the „Ancient Floridians“ chapter of „Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,“ by Jerald T. Milanich, published by University Press of Florida in 1998. Since at least the 1920s, residents of Florida have been finding Indian artifacts
What else have we learned about them?

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Collections Data Copyright and Use Information – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/collections/data-use/

Collections data provided by the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Florida Museum of Natural (FLMNH) either through the web catalog or via data files are subject to the following usage conditions: 1. These data are copyright protected by the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Florida Mus
altmax Numeric 4 Altitude in meters, highest measure if a range is given, else blank

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Bone collectors and sacred trash – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bone-collectors-and-sacred-trash/

To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself. In fact, it’s pretty much one and the same. When you finish your chicken dinner, your next step is most likely to toss the leftover bones in the garbage. And if you hunt, you probably
What else would you do with old bones, right?

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Liz Wing: A portrait in persistence – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/elizabeth-wing-portrait-in-persistance/

Elizabeth “Liz� Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than a decade after the school began accepting women. As a master’s student with an incurable curiosity for “anything that cracked or crawled,� Wing was interested in animal anatomy a
there’s no difference in the quality of a woman’s research as opposed to anyone else

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World’s soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worlds-soft-coral-diversity-retains-signature-of-an-ancient-vanished-sea/

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve learned just about everything about them by now. But talk to a marine biologist, and they will quickly
greatest number of endemic species — those that can be found in one region and nowhere else

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Quick Guide to PLabel for Windows – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

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The „Active File“ The active file is one of the user created data files where labels are stored. This file is a Microsoft Visual FoxPro table composed of a file ending with the *.plw extension and another ending with *.fpt (e.g., MyPlabelFile.plw, MyPlabelFile.fpt). These two files are critical if
The family will not print if anything else is entered.

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Preparation and Conservation – Vertebrate Paleontology Collection

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/amateur-collector/preparation/

Until a time machine is invented, fossils represent the only information we have about extinct animals. The information contained in fossils can be developed and enhanced by proper preparation techniques. This information can also be preserved for future generations through proper conservation and
resin down into the interior of the fossil bone, the consolidant must be thin or else

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