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First BioBlitz at Seahorse Key – Research News

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During the winter holidays every year, hundreds of “snowbirds� travel from the northern U.S. and Canada for the warmth of the South Florida sun. But there’s always the occasional cold spell. As luck would have it, temperatures in December 2012 dropped while Florida Museum of Natural Histor
from a boat during the day, captured moths at night and collected sea creatures by hand

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Earth Day, Every Day 2021 – Events

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Earth Day, Every Day! This year the Florida Museum, in partnership with the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute, has declared the month of April, Earth Day, Every Day! We invite you to a full month of Earth Day activities and challenges. Each day we have a suggested activity or r
April 16 | Living Greener Which saves more water – dishwashing by hand or machine

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Botanizing with Marc – Randell Research Center

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Visitors to the Calusa Heritage Trail come for a variety of reasons—some to learn about the archaeology, some for the fresh air, some to see some of the 100+ kinds of birds that come through the site. And, almost everybody notices the diverse array of interesting plants, some familiar, some
We carefully hand pulled this invader and will be watching for its presence other

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Secret Morphology – McGuire Center

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Lepidoptera species generally have different wing patterns which help identify them. Nevertheless, look-alikes and plain colored species can be a challenge, especially with tiny moths. Long before DNA barcoding became a popular identification tool, Lepidopterists relied on what is still the inexpens
dissection is very low-cost tool which does not require much more than a steady hand

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Haile 7C – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Haile 7C University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL109 Location In a limerock quarry about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of the town of Newberry, Alachua County, Florida; 29.69º N, 82.56º W. Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; middle late Blancan land mammal age About  2.2 and 1.9 mil
All of the bones of the wrist and hand were preserved.

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I-75 Site – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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I-75 Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL018 Location Southwestern Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, at the intersection of Interstate Highway 75 (I-75) and SR 121 (Williston Road); 29.6° N, 82.4° W. Age Early Oligocene Epoch; later half of Whitneyan land mammal
On the other hand, derived specimens of chiropterans and Miohippus suggest an age

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Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history – Research News

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It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants through time. But a new four-year grant from the National Science Foundation is shaking things up. It provides more than $1 million to study how Mediterranea
With that information in hand, the next phase of the project will incorporate computer

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Newly discovered tiger shark migration pattern might explain attacks near Hawaii – Research News

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The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attacks in that area, according to a University of Florida scientist. In a new seven-year study, researchers from the Florida Museum of Na
They also investigated environmental circumstances, resource availability, first-hand

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

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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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The why, where and when of leading shark attack site – Research News

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Shark attacks are most likely to occur on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon and involve surfers wearing black and white bathing suits, a first-of-its-kind study from the Florida Museum suggests. Researchers analyzed statistics from shark attacks that occurred in Florida’s Vo
Hand splashing and feet kicking provoke sharks, which bite and release what they

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