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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 to the museum’s special projects
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 the museum’s paleontology prep
The destruction of the cattle ranches and interior missions by James Moore, and the continuing English raids that made farming impossible cut St. Augustine off from what had once been an important source of food. At the same time, Spain’s involvement in European wars during the early eighteenth cent
Even when the situado was sent, it didn’t always arrive in St.
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
were studying chloroplast retrograde signaling in land plants’ stomata when Chen sent
The Aucilla River Prehistory Project was an archaeological and paleontological project excavating a particularly rich series of deposits that yielded ancient megafaunal remains in association with Paleoindian artifacts. The Aucilla River flows into the Big Bend area of northwestern Florida. The riv
The sediments lifted with water going into the dredge are sent to the surface and
I’m the friend that those close to me come to for book recommendations. I love being this friend, but it also presents its challenges. First, how do I know the book I loved will be good for my friend? Everyone approaches a story with their own set of past experiences and current states of mind. I
, you know she loves a quality overlapping narrative and in Unsheltered, you’re sent
The McGuire Center Lepidoptera collection includes a modest number of what are known as „type specimens.“ When researchers name and describe a new species or subspecies of butterfly or moth, they have a set of specimens before them that are closely examined in order write a verbal description and il
In 1968, Lee Miller was sent to Paris by Arthur Allyn to act as a purchasing agent
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!
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.
You may suggest the acronym of the herbarium you would like the set to be sent to
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
If successful, the carcasses are necropsied by the FWC, and sent to our museum where
