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The water surrounding Florida is a graveyard for thousands of ships — casualties of shifting sands, coral reefs, and treacherous hurricanes. Today, these shipwrecks are time capsules that reflect the history of maritime trade, colonial expansion by sea, and the changing fortunes of European powers i
Survivors and Salvage Crews from Havana were often sent
Plants’ water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants managed this transition when faced with unfamiliar challenges such as drought and bright light has been unclear. Now, a new study shows that the built-in alert system that enabl
retrograde signaling in land plants’ stomata when Chen sent
Places like the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles echo famous prehistoric discoveries. But at the bottom of a sinkhole near the small Florida town of Bell in Gilchrist County lies the richest Early Miocene vertebrate fossil locality in the world, known as Thomas
The jacket, once hardened, was removed and sent to
Plants’ water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants managed this transition when faced with unfamiliar challenges such as drought and bright light has been unclear. Now, a new study shows that the built-in alert system that enabl
retrograde signaling in land plants’ stomata when Chen sent
Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
“I sent it to Pat, and he was like, ‘Oh my God!
As Becky Reichart pressed against one of the sleek, bleached, white rib bones of the fully rearticulated 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, one of the largest found in Florida, she commented, “They look delicate, but they’re actually really strong.” The bones tell the story of the snake’s life in the
The snake’s body was divided into sections and sent
The University of Florida Herbarium staff works with researchers to facilitate the processing of submitted specimens. Collections are accepted in accordance the herbarium’s Collection Acquisitions Policy. It is the responsibility of the collector to properly prepare, label and sort specimen sets.
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Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts. Researchers recently concluded two pilot studies: one examined the presence of Harris lines, or growth-arrest lines, detectable by radiography in p
successful, the carcasses are necropsied by the FWC, and sent
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts. Researchers recently concluded two pilot studies: one examined the presence of Harris lines, or growth-arrest lines, detectable by radiography in p
successful, the carcasses are necropsied by the FWC, and sent
Indian River Lagoon, on Florida’s east coast, has historically served as habitat for an abundance of marine life. But human pressures have changed all that, and Florida Museum researchers now are working to understand the population dynamics of species that still inhabit the lagoon while searching f
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