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Listen here! We (heart) science! – Florida Museum Blog

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/listen-here-we-heart-science/

Like so many millions of people around the world, a good number of our Museum staff, scientists and student researchers are working from home now to slow the spread of COVID-19. What started as a casual conversation about silence at home quickly became a great list of science-y and museum-themed
the Smithsonian’s side door to search for stories that can’t be found anywhere else

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Stone Hoes – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/object/stone-hoes/

These objects are shaped like axes, but don’t hold a sharp edge and are too heavy to be practical. They may have been used as hoes, or as a trade facilitator – unique objects given during negotiations to show how important (or not!) your trade partner was. Summary Stone Hoes Made by Native Isla
example it was owned by so-and-so, who gave it to so-and-so, who gave it to someone else

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FL VP Course: Rachael Dean – Montbrook Fossil Dig

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/blog/fl-vp-course-rachael-dean/

This semester I was presented with a very unique opportunity in which I was able to help dig up fossils for UF’s vertebrate paleontology class. Throughout my visits to the dig site, I think I was really able to learn firsthand about all of the different aspects of what goes on at the site and how mu
that whatever is hidden in my square is a bit closer to the surface for someone else

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Caterpillar droppings: Sisyphean labor meets Herculean task – Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/andrei-sourakov/activities/caterpillar-droppings/

When Hercules was tasked by Eurystheus with cleaning up after King Augeas‘ cattle in a single day, he had his work cut out for him. But Hercules, being not only a superhero but also a wiz, figured out a painless solution and diverted a nearby river so that its waters would do the work for him. All a
caterpillars in bags that, akin to baby diapers, need to be frequently changed, or else

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Researcher receives grant to study birds in the Andes – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/researcher-receives-grant-to-study-birds-in-the-andes/

With $800,000 from the National Science Foundation, Florida Museum of Natural History conservation biologist Scott Robinson is researching bird ranges in the Andes Mountains. Robinson is leading a team of about 20 researchers measuring ideal temperatures for different species’ survival, study
Some of these species can just move upslope – the problem is, there’s something else

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Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/fossil-collector-donates-lifes-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 to 50,000 identifiable specimens. The specimens formerly comprised the world’s second-largest collection of Florida vertebrate fossils. The museum will
“I wanted to know more about the geology of Florida than anybody else, and in some

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Study finds cats No. 1 predator to urban mockingbird nests – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/study-finds-cats-no-1-predator-to-urban-mockingbird-nests/

A new University of Florida study shows cats are the dominant predator to mockingbird eggs and nestlings in urban areas, prompting conservationists to urge pet owners to keep felines indoors at night. The findings challenge assumptions that urban areas are places of refuge for nesting mockingbird
cats wouldn’t also eat cardinal nestlings, brown thrashers, towhees – anything else

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Meet the Researchers: Tyler Bowling – Florida Program for Shark Research

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sharks/blog/meet-the-researchers-tyler-bowling/

Tyler Bowling is the manager for the Florida Program for Shark research and a Ph.D. student in UF zoology program. 1. Where are you from? I grew up in rural southern Maryland on a small farm. 2. Why did you want to be a scientist when you grew up? I saw a Nat Geo special about coral reefs at age
They see more bites than anywhere else, and all within a very small geographic area

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Links – Paleobotany + Palynology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/paleobotany/resources/links/

Other Paleobotanical Collections and Databases This is not an exhaustive list of all paleobotanical collections and/or databases. If you would like your site to be listed, please send your web address to Hongshan Wang. The Cuticle Database is an image collection of plant cuticles prepared from vou
from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale (360 million years ago) not known anywhere else

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