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New UF study reveals oldest primate lived in trees – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-uf-study-reveals-oldest-primate-lived-in-trees/

Say “primate” and most people wouldn’t think of a tree-dwelling, squirrel-like creature that weighs no more than a deck of playing cards, but a new study suggests that may perfectly describe humans’ earliest primate ancestors. Found in the same area of Montana that yielded the massive Tyranno
for fruit at the edge of limbs, said lead author Stephen Chester, an assistant professor

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Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biologist-joins-project-to-sequence-all-eukaryotes/

Florida Museum of Natural History plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the DNA of all of Earth’s known plants, animals, fungi and microbial eukaryotes over a period of 10 years. The team announced the initiative, known as the Earth BioGenome Project, in a p
its past population sizes and how they fluctuated,” said Soltis, a distinguished professor

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Cohort I: AI Learning in K-12 with Fossil Sharks (July 2022-May 2023) – Thompson Earth Systems Institute

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/sefs-summer-pd-sail-stimulating-ai-learning-in-k-12-with-fossil-sharks/

From July 11-15,  12 Florida middle school teachers came together to kick off our yearlong professional development program titled, „AI Learning in K-12 with Fossil Sharks.“ During this unique experience, teachers learned how to bridge the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and paleontology in
Instructors Bruce MacFadden, TESI Director and Distinguished Professor, Florida

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Alumni – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/people/alumni/

Former Students Tania Pineda Enriquez Ph.D. 2022, Zoology “Diversity and evolution of brittle stars across the worlds ocean: Revisionary systematics of ophiolepidoids” Jenna Moore Ph.D. 2019, Zoology “Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of functional morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida)
inferences from the molecular systematics of reef-associated crustaceans” Associate Professor

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Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/lawrence-page-fulbright-2020/

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
terms of fish diversity,” said Page, who is also a University of Florida affiliate professor

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Early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts – Research News

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A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals. The study published online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology addresses the century-lo
Barbara Purdy, right, University of Florida anthropology professor emeritus and archaeology

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Some plants may not adapt quickly to future climate change – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/some-plants-may-not-adapt-quickly-to-future-climate-change/

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human-induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture. T
human-induced climate change, said study co-author Pam Soltis, a distinguished professor

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Faculty – Department of Natural History

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Department Chair David Blackburn Herpetology Department Chair, Associate Director for Research & Collections, and Curator Affiliate Appointments: Biology, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, School of Art + Art History Contact: 352-273-1943 | db
Lockwood Jr., Professor of Historical Archaeology Curator Affiliate Appointments:

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