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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
been displaced from their homeland with the clothes on their backs and nothing else

The great tragedy of the Montbrook dig site is that we showed up five million years late to what would have been a pretty epic fish fry. Bony fish (Osteichthyes) fossils make up about a third of the cataloged fossils from the site, (about 7200 specimens). Most of these cataloged specimens are macro-
that they were most likely the modern channel catfish, Ictalurus punctactus, or else

Arctodus pristinus Quick Facts Common Name: Lesser short-faced bear Largest land carnivore in Florida during the early Pleistocene. Among living bears, most closely related to the spectacled bear of South America. Age Range Early to middle Pleistocene Epoch; Blancan and Irvingtonian
More fossils of this species are known from Florida (about 150) than anywhere else

Kirby Smith was a Confederate general, amateur botanist and academic. He collected plants wherever he was stationed during his long career. His plant collection, donated to the Museum, represents a snapshot of plant biodiversity during Kirby Smith’s time. Summary Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amp
Kirby Smith statue is soon to be removed from the Capitol and replaced by someone else

A trendy holiday gift within a decade may be a hand-held device that instantly identifies any species from a snippet of animal tissue, say Florida Museum of Natural History researchers. That may be possible thanks to scientific advances that include the first test quantifying the effectivenes
orange shipment and wonder if they are from a dangerous fruit fly or something else

Unlike social insects such as bees and ants, moths are generally loners. So, when Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov spotted a dozen glossy black Idia moths inside a hollow tree, he made a mental note. After he stumbled across 100 of the same species in another hollow
That sparked my interest further in what else might be lurking there.� He first

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
particular cancer-curing drug is in a particular plant, you might want to know, ‘Where else

1. Daily Follow-up to Mounting Do a final check on the specimen conditions and have specimens repaired that are not mounted well. Make sure each specimen is secure and has a packet. Provide feedback to the mounters. Pencil the family number on the upper right of each sheet’s label or just ab
If the material is redundant, determine which to cull for exchange, else organize

When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes. A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are not publicly accessible, leaving researchers worldwide unable to get to critical data they may need to
an alignment that I do is not going to be the same as an alignment that somebody else

When most people hear the words Guantanamo Bay, they immediately think of the infamous prison built there in 2001. But for Roger Portell, an invertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Guantanamo means the chance to collect marine fossils on an island that is otherwise larg
We get some unique invertebrate occurrences here in Florida that we see nowhere else