Museum researchers receive $53,000 to digitize ancient Mayan collection
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers recently received $53,000 to enhance the museum’s online database of Mayan artifacts. The two-year…
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Douglas Jones elected to national association board
Florida Museum of Natural History Director Douglas S. Jones has been elected to the American Association of Museums Board of…
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Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections
Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of…
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Earliest horses show past global warming affected mammal body size
These days, climate change is a hot topic. What will happen as temperatures rise more rapidly than humans have documented…
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Early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during…
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Science fair winner publishes new study on butterfly foraging behavior
University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life’s work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage…
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Record number of endangered sawfish tagged
Scientists studying marine animals at the Florida Museum of Natural History seem to be living the high life, heading to…
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Unlocking genetic data of rediscovered ‘hidden’ native Florida plant
In 1947, a small package containing an unknown plant specimen arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium. For…
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Using tree-ring data to test climate events
The events were depicted in ancient Mesoamerican codex In ancient Mesoamerica, as the Aztec calendar predicted the end of the…
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Researching 6,000 years of history in the Bahamas
The field of restoration ecology, in which native flora and fauna are re-established to create more sustainable environments, is taking…
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