Hunting fossil hummingbirds in Florida
Birders in Florida may get a thrill when they spy a ruby-throated hummingbird flitting through their backyard — after all,…
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Study shows largest North America climate change in 65 million years
The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature…
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New species of bent-toed gecko from Pakistan described
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko from Pakistan and published its description in…
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Florida panther conservation
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts….
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Hellbender conservation in the Ozarks, Great Smoky Mountains
A Florida Museum herpetologist examines effects of collecting and flooding upon imperiled giant hellbender salamanders, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis. Hellbender salamanders are…
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Fossils offer clues to North Florida’s past
In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to…
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Filling the Andean butterfly gap, one species at a time
It’s a mammoth job, setting out to document all the butterflies of South America’s tropical Andean cordillera — a 3,000-mile…
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UF study: Use nest-box control for South Florida nuisance iguanas
Health and safety risks from non-native iguanas in south Florida have prompted a University of Florida researcher and his team…
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Racing to survey coral reefs
Around the globe,scientists are ringing alarm bells about coral bleaching—when corals expel their symbiotic, food-producing algae due to heat stress,…
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Paleontologist discovers most primitive primate skeleton
The roots of the primate family tree are now more clearly defined in the fossil record, and about 10 million…
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