Anatomy of a burmese python
As Becky Reichart pressed against one of the sleek, bleached, white rib bones of the fully rearticulated 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python,…
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Introducing K-12 teachers to our Panama fieldwork
Over the past 4 million years, North American fauna migrated to South America via the Isthmus of Panama. Florida Museum…
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iDigBio effort awarded $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections
The National Science Foundation has awarded six grants totaling about $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections, a nationwide effort coordinated…
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Hawkmoth research collaboration
Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Akito Kawahara and Boise State University researcher Jesse Barber explain their new collaborative study…
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9,700 acres tell stories of Florida’s past
It was home to Native Americans as early as 12,000 B.C., then settlers during the Civil War. Its pine trees…
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Bird calls on demand
While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected…
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Panama Canal Project
Between 2009 and 2016, the Panama Canal was expanded, providing an opportunity for researchers to excavate fossils at previously inaccessible….
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A butterfly in hiding takes wing on social media
Thanks to social media and museum collections, a butterfly species was recognized in 2011 after more than 50 years of…
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97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past
Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological…
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UF receives $1.97 million NSF grant to develop paleontology network
With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation…
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