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Expansion of Missions and Ranches – St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/staugustine/timeline/expansion-of-missions-and-ranches/

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
A 1759 account noted that “the fat horses (reach a height) of seven or more hand

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FL VP Course: Anne Pfund – Montbrook Fossil Dig

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/blog/fl-vp-course-anne-pfund/

Day 1: Saturday, February 5, 2022 My first day on the dig! I had no idea what to expect. I arrived in the morning, it was so cold, I was glad to have as many layers as I did. I was given my instructions, gathered my tools, and was told to pick a square. The pressure! How could I possibly choose one
what I was doing, no interruptions meant that I could really focus on the task at hand

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Bird calls on demand – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bird-calls-on-demand/

While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected over the past 40 years, Florida Museum of Natural History ornithologist Tom Webber inspected an especially fragile reel from the 1960s. “Eventually, even the magnetic plas
But the older ones,� he said as he paused, running his hand across a stack of worn

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Past staff, students and volunteer – University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/research/mossesinflas/our-staff-students-and-volunteer/

Lorena Endara, PhD Workflow Manager This has been an incredible opportunity to learn about bryophytes and lichens and to apply what I have learnt about collection and project management. Most importantly, I feel really lucky to have met an incredible group of fun and smart undergraduate stud
Having experienced these trials and revelations first-hand, I may with little doubt

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Costa Rica Photography Workshop with the Florida Museum and Holbrook Travel – Events

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/events/blog/costa-rica-photography-workshop-with-the-florida-museum-and-holbrook-travel/

It’s pre-dawn. Your camera and lenses are packed, and you’ve pulled yourself out of bed before sunrise for early morning photography. Nature photography takes planning, persistence, patience and grit. But you return home with images you are technically unhappy with. Perhaps they were not exposed pr
And in this dream scenario, you’d have a professional photographer on hand to answer

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School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/school-lesson-leads-to-bigger-megalodon-size/

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked the massive predator at about 50 to 60 feet long. The revised estimate is t
Now when a paleontologist unearths a lone megalodon tooth the size of their hand,

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Greenland Shark – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/greenland-shark/

Somniosus microcephalus This large, heavy-set shark grows to an average 8-14 feet long but can get to be 24 feet. It has a short, rounded snout, small eyes, and relatively small dorsal fins. Although it is an apex predator, it is a slow swimmer, and likely ambushes its prey and scavenges for
Greenland shark dentition: upper and lower teeth from the right-hand side, at the

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Crevalle Jack – Discover Fishes

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/crevalle-jack/

Caranx hippos This large fish is wonderfully abundant in the Atlantic Ocean, and popular resource for both commercial and sports fishers alike. The juvenile is striped vertically along its sides, but as it matures, it changes to an even greenish-bluish above and silver or golden below. Usually ad
Adults, on the other hand, usually occupy upstream currents, reefs, offshore areas

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