Did you know that the Florida Museum is planning an extreme makeover of its earliest permanent exhibit at Powell Hall, Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife? This project came about after the exhibit recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and the museum decided it was in need of refreshing wi
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Soltis, P. S., and D. E. Soltis. 2021. Plant genomes: Markers of evolutionary history and drivers of evolutionary change. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 3:74–82. [View on Publisher’s site] Societal Impact Statement Plant genomes hold the key to understanding the evolutionary history of plants, a lineage
is related to the equally spectacular diversity of plant form and function, this link
Wickett, N. J., S. Mirarab, N. Nguyen, T. Warnow, E. Carpenter, N. Matasci, S. Ayyampalayam, M. S. Barker, J. G. Burleigh, M. A. Gitzendanner, B. R. Ruhfel, E. Wafula, J. P. Der, S. W. Graham, S. Mathews, M. Melkonian, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, N. W. Miles, C. J. Rothfels, L. Pokorny, A. J. Shaw,
[Link to article on publisher’s site] Abstract: Reconstructing the origin and evolution
The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter at the University of Florida hosted its first Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition en Español on April 17, 2024. In this competition, developed by the University of Queensland in Australia, st
For information on past UF 3MT Competitions visit the following link: UF 3MT For
The National Science Foundation awarded the Florida Museum of Natural History a $500,000 grant to develop a research coordination network for the emerging field of conservation paleobiology. Conservation paleobiology uses fossils and other archives of the past to shed light on how natural habitat
“The project will help focus this promising new field and link it to other research
Imagine that Labradors and golden retrievers died out a million years ago, leaving only fossilized skeletons behind. Without the help of DNA, how could we determine that a fossil Labrador, a fossil retriever and a modern Chihuahua all belong to the same species, Canis lupus familiaris? And could we
Adult box turtles also come in a wide array of sizes with no direct link between
Germain-Aubrey, C. C., P. S. Soltis, K. M. Neubig, T. Thurston, Douglas E. Soltis, and M. A. Gitzendanner. 2014. Using Comparative Biogeography to Retrace the Origins of an Ecosystem: The Case of Four Plants Endemic to the Central Florida Scrub. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175:418–431. [
[Link to Article] Abstract: Premise of research.
Undergraduate student researchers and volunteers contribute significantly to research conducted in the Department of Natural History. Each year, several hundred undergraduate students work on projects, including fieldwork, laboratory experiments, curatorial activities in the museum collections, and
applications directly to the Center for Undergraduate Research as described at the above link
Tucker Borrow Pit University of Florida Fossil Vertebrate Localities BR011 Location Tucker Borrow Pit is located in far southwestern Brevard County. 27.83o N, 80.81o W. Age Late early to early middle Pleistocene Epoch; Irvingtonian land mammal age About 1.3-0.6 million years old B
does not contain any extremely rare or valuable species, it forms an important link
Virtual brains reconstructed from ancient, kiwi-sized primate skulls could help resolve one of the most intriguing evolutionary mysteries: how modern primates developed large brains. University of Florida paleontologists found clues in the remarkably preserved skulls of adapiforms, lemur-like
Thought to be a link between primitive and advanced primates, their fossil skulls
