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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New butterfly species naming rights auctioned for $40,800
Surprisingly, McGuire Center Collections Manager George Austin came across the species while curating butterflies in the Florida Museum, which houses…
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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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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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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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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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Bountiful harvest
As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked…
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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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The oldest land in Florida
Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson were experts at solving mysteries. Holmes, it is said, could make use of…
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