Jennifer Green joins the Florida Museum as new archaeology collections manager
Jennifer Green grew up surrounded by the sub-tropical diversity of Southern Florida, where she spent most of her time exploring…
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Nicolas Gauthier leveraging AI to increase the value of museum collections
Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part…
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Researchers discover new species in critically imperiled ecosystem
Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa,…
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Student’s device enables researchers to easily track elusive insects
With some home security software and a little ingenuity, researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to…
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Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows
Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia….
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After three years of declines, shark bites are again on the rise
After three consecutive years of worldwide declines, the number of shark bites picked up in 2021, with a total of…
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Earth BioGenome Project enters new phase
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants,…
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Audubon Christmas Bird Count concludes in North Florida with familiar faces, first-timers and shifting migrations
The annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count concluded last week with volunteers tallying bird sightings in 28 countries throughout North, Central…
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Map of transparent butterflies highlights biodiversity hotspot in the Andes Mountains
With over a million known species, insects are by far the most diverse group of organisms on Earth, with conservative…
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Early bloomers: Using citizen-science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees
In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight. Joshua trees and closely related…
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