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Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest-known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/mysterious-fruit-shown-to-be-the-oldest-known-fossils-of-the-frankincense-and-myrrh-family/

Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species
plane, I would have been able to recognize them, but with the material we had on hand

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Revising ‘Red Book of Endemic Plants of Ecuador’ – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/revising-red-book-of-endemic-plants-of-ecuador/

With an area about the size of Arizona, Ecuador seems small when compared to other South American countries, such as Argentina or Brazil. But what it lacks in land, it makes up in biodiversity. Deemed one of 17 “megadiverse” countries by Conservation International, Ecuador has the highest con
years studying flowering plants in Ecuador, Endara has witnessed species loss first-hand

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Scientific Illustrations – High School – Panama Canal Project (PCP PIRE)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/panama-pire/pcppireteach/scientific-illustrations-high-school/

These lessons can be completed as a small continuous unit or you can take more time and spread it out amongst other units/lessons. Lessons & Teacher’s Notes Teacher Notes Scientific Illustration Handout – Helpful Tips: This is given to students at the beginning as a resource they will use t
gives you a good idea of what the original student wrote), students may need to hand

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Frolicking bears and other oddities – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/frolicking-bears-and-other-oddities/

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken from the New York Weekly Sun. Unsigned, the article included a wonderful account of a visit to Turtle Mound, an archaeological site in modern Volusia County, just south of New Smyr
Twenty years later he was back to witness first-hand the initial efforts to drain

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/teachers-receive-fossils-at-museum-workshop/

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
of them, but that’s not the same as when they actually get to hold them in their hand

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Investigating the Calusa – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/investigating-the-calusa/

The Calusa may have been the only ancient people in North America who established a kingdom without practicing agriculture. Their sophistication and fierceness enabled them to resist Spanish domination for some 200 years. The Calusa king Caalus, perched high on his throne in his grand house, watc
They recovered various types of Spanish artifacts such as majolica ceramics, hand-wrought

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Visiting & Doing Research in the Collection – Vertebrate Paleontology Collection

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/professionals/visiting-collection/

The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology welcomes the use of its collections by outside researchers regardless of academic affiliation. The following steps should be taken: Contact one of the Vertebrate Paleontology curators and inform them of the intended dates of your visit and the type(s)
Visitors wishing to borrow specimens and hand carry them back to their institution

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Drawing dragons – Florida Museum Blog

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/drawing-dragons/

Dragons are everywhere. Rachel Keeffe knows this. She recently talked to UF News about dragons on the Game of Thrones series. If dragons could exist, what would they look like? How and where would they thrive? Rachel is currently a herpetology Ph.D. student at the Florida Museum/UF departm
the world, but ended up having to cap that at 100 because it quickly got out of hand

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UF researchers help sequence genome of ancient flowering plant – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/uf-researchers-help-sequence-genome-of-ancient-flowering-plant/

In a letter to his friend and colleague, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin referred to the sudden and rapid diversification of angiosperms, or flowering plants, as „an abominable mystery.“ Today, University of Florida researchers are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a
“Amborella, on the other hand, is a sister species to more than 350,000 flowering

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