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About Imani J. Jackson is a Cultural Heritage Communications Ph.D. student at the University of Florida where she is also a graduate teaching assistant. The proudly Afro-Atlantic, eighth-generation North Floridian earned a mass communication BA at Grambling, JD at FAMU and an environmental law LLM
foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell
Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists enlisted the help of the public as they returned to the remains of the oldest stone mission church completed in colonial Spanish Florida during the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine last month. From Aug. 24 through Sept. 11, 2015, participants sea
Previous shrines fell victim to war, pirates and storms.Florida Museum photo by Kristen
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants, animals, fungi and other eukaryotic life on Earth, is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full scale production sequencing. Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the Fl
Grants & Initiatives Earth BioGenome Project enters new phase by Andy Fell
An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk communities were incredibly resilient to major climatic shifts during the last ice age. Scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History and several European research institutions tracked the history of Adriatic ecosystems throug
Sea levels rose and fell as water from the world’s oceans was cyclically released
Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species currently known to exist are considered threatened or endangered at the state or federal level, and nearly all scrub mints grow in areas that are being rapidly developed or converted to
particularly true of the elevated areas that had been islands before sea levels fell
Euonymus americanus is called hearts-a-bustin’, bursting-heart or strawberry bush. 1: It’s a Florida native shrub that’s made for the shade. This species is native to moist forests in the eastern United States as far west as Texas and north into Ontario. It grows throughout most of Florid
Remember how Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on the spindle and fell into a deep
Oligocene Epoch 34 million to 24 million years ago Global climates became cooler during the Oligocene, causing sea levels to drop. At least the northern portion of the Florida platform, once abundant with tropical, marine habitats, was now land. Early immigrants to the Florida peninsula inclu
In Florida, sea levels fell, exposing part of the peninsula for the first time.
Nearly 100 fossil species pulled from a flooded cave in the Bahamas reveal a true story of persistence against all odds — at least until the time humans stepped foot on the islands. University of Florida researchers say the discovery, detailed in a study appearing in the Proceedings of the Na
Of those, 17 species of birds likely fell victim to changes in climate and rising
As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked forward to a good harvest. They sure weren’t thinking about rhinoceroses. But after their plow turned up broken bits of what appeared to be bones from a large animal, they called Richard Hulbert
At times portions of the walls cracked and limestone boulders fell to the bottom