Ancient crocodile relative likely food source for Titanoboa
A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described this week by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology was…
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Bird sound recordings going digital
Ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are preparing to digitize nearly all of the museum’s analog bird-sound field…
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Scientist wins NSF CAREER Award for genetic plant research
Nico Cellinese, assistant curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History herbarium and informatics, has received a prestigious $865,000 CAREER…
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DNA sequenced for entire Pacific island
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of…
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Ancient sea stars pose challenge for paleontologists
Imagine trying to piece together a picture of marine species living 40 million years ago based on the flimsiest of…
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Uncovering the ancient origins of modern opossum
A Florida Museum researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of…
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20,000th specimen added to genetic repository cryogenic freezer
The Florida Museum of Natural History has added specimen number 20,000 to its Genetic Resources Repository, a nitrogen-cooled freezer with…
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Plant fossils give first picture of earliest Neotropical rainforests
A Florida Museum of Natural History paleobotanist and other researchers have used a rich cache of plant fossils discovered in…
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Researchers given glimpse into bull sharks’ movement
Indian River Lagoon, on Florida’s east coast, has historically served as habitat for an abundance of marine life. But human…
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Catch and release
The sun had barely broken over the trees as Jason Romine, a research biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural…
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