Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History
The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000…
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Bird sound recordings going digital
Ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are preparing to digitize nearly all of the museum’s analog bird-sound field…
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20,000th specimen added to genetic repository cryogenic freezer
The Florida Museum of Natural History has added specimen number 20,000 to its Genetic Resources Repository, a nitrogen-cooled freezer with…
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Donation of Lepidoptera collection will boost biodiversity research
A gift of more than 2 million butterfly and moth specimens to the University of Florida contains hundreds and possibly…
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Florida Museum now houses its own deep freeze DNA library
Time is slowing down—way down—for a select collection of DNA specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History. They are…
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Phantom fossils: ancient impressions of marine organisms
Tourists who comb Florida’s sandy beaches for exotic shells are probably unaware that they’re also picking through bits of geologic…
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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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Herbarium plays vital role to researchers worldwide
The Herbarium at the Florida Museum of Natural History is run jointly by the Museum and the University of Florida…
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Ancient DNA illuminated
Nestled snugly at the end of Dickinson Hall’s west wing, in a room with bleached concrete floors, bleached counters and…
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Sclerochronology: Playing back the recordings of life
Sclerochronology is the study of astronomical cycles recorded in the hard tissues of organisms such as the shells of mollusks…
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