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Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized and used in various ways by different cultures. Frog toxins are remarkably potent in the human body and may be used to treat heart ailments, infections, cancer, depression, strok
from the Caribbean Awards & Honors David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor

Before modern-day pregnancy tests, doctors in the early 20th century resorted to unusual methods. One was to expose a live African clawed frog to a woman’s urine, then wait hours to see if it laid eggs. If it did, the test was positive. The frogs were used in pregnancy tests until the 1970s when
understand how much diversity there is and where it occurs,” said Evans, an associate professor

University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life’s work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage daughter, Alexandra, who led research on how color impacts butterflies’ feeding patterns. The research shows different species exhibit unique foraging behaviors
how different organs are used in finding food, said Adriana Briscoe, an associate professor

A new study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state’s geologic history, showing Florida could be 10 million to 15 million years older than previously believed. The discovery of land in Florida during the early Eocene opens the
we thought we knew was an incomplete body of information,” said Fredrick Rich, a professor

In 2012, a crop of California’s most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and falling away, revealing stems that had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina st
analysis of insects provided by the late Dan Lindsley, formerly a retired UC San Diego professor

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
“This is the first crack at it,” said University of Florida botany professor Doug

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
Study co-author Pamela Soltis, Florida Museum distinguished professor and curator

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
rates, said botanist Austin Mast, a co-principal investigator on the grant and professor

A Florida Museum of Natural History study shows that mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in marine ecosystems and shifts in ocean biodiversity. Collecting data from the shells of dead mollusks is a low-impact way of glimpsing how oceans looked before pollution, habi
conducted the work as a postdoctoral researcher at the museum and is now an assistant professor

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology Program received a nearly $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to curate some of its most delicate specimens and vital data, documenting 14,000 years of biodiversity in vulnerable regions around the Caribbean. Environmental a
Elise LeCompte and Edward Stanley of the Florida Museum as well as Elizabeth Reitz, professor