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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Bahamas’ first national heritage park
Nestled in a dry tropical forest on the western shores of New Providence Island the Clifton plantation has for centuries…
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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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New Frogmouth bird genus found in South Pacific Solomon Islands
Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new…
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Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues
New research indicating early humans acquired public lice from gorillas about 3.3 million years ago sheds new light on when…
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Plants on the move
Florida Museum of Natural History Paleobotany Curator Steve Manchester has concluded a three-year National Science Foundation project comparing 50-million-year old…
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