Global warming dramatically changed ancient forests
Palmettos in Pennsylvania? Magnolias in Minnesota? The migration of subtropical plants to northern climates may not be too far-fetched if…
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Discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals
“Into Africa” rather than “Out of Africa” could well be the better description of how certain mammals originated and spread…
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Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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Ideas about fossil horses undergo evolution in thinking
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher whose…
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Frolicking bears and other oddities
Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…
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The astonishing Monarch
Imagine walking into a towering cathedral draped with million-faceted curtains of orange-gold and black, shimmering in the morning sunlight. Then…
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Heavy rains lead to toad, frog population explosion
Four hurricanes visited Florida in 2004: Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne. Charley crossed the southern peninsula from southwest to northeast….
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Head lice research supports direct contact between modern, archaic humans
New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to…
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St. Lucia bypassed during initial settlement of the Anitilles
To the west stretched the vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea; to the north rose the magnificent Pitons, the symbol…
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Atlantic corals unique, cannot be replaced if lost
The discovery that many Caribbean corals are only distantly related to their counterparts in the Pacific Ocean makes the threats…
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