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Study finds cats No. 1 predator to urban mockingbird nests – Research News

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A new University of Florida study shows cats are the dominant predator to mockingbird eggs and nestlings in urban areas, prompting conservationists to urge pet owners to keep felines indoors at night. The findings challenge assumptions that urban areas are places of refuge for nesting mockingbird
cats wouldn’t also eat cardinal nestlings, brown thrashers, towhees – anything else

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Meet the Researchers: Tyler Bowling – Florida Program for Shark Research

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Tyler Bowling is the manager for the Florida Program for Shark research and a Ph.D. student in UF zoology program. 1. Where are you from? I grew up in rural southern Maryland on a small farm. 2. Why did you want to be a scientist when you grew up? I saw a Nat Geo special about coral reefs at age
They see more bites than anywhere else, and all within a very small geographic area

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Peruvian mummy lice may give clues about human migration – Research News

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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
been displaced from their homeland with the clothes on their backs and nothing else

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Researchers name new cusk-eels useful for understanding environment – Research News

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A study by University of Florida and University of Kansas researchers describing eight new cusk-eel species provides data for better understanding how disasters like the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill impact biodiversity and the environment. The 60-year study appearing Tuesday in the Florida Museu
“This was a group of fish that turned me on at some point and nobody else was working

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Validity of DNA ID tool measured using marine snails – Research News

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A trendy holiday gift within a decade may be a hand-held device that instantly identifies any species from a snippet of animal tissue, say Florida Museum of Natural History researchers. That may be possible thanks to scientific advances that include the first test quantifying the effectivenes
orange shipment and wonder if they are from a dangerous fruit fly or something else

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Hollow trees host massive moth slumber parties – Research News

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Unlike social insects such as bees and ants, moths are generally loners. So, when Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov spotted a dozen glossy black Idia moths inside a hollow tree, he made a mental note. After he stumbled across 100 of the same species in another hollow
That sparked my interest further in what else might be lurking there.”

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NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails – Research News

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Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
And I don’t think there’s anybody else that can provide that level of information

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Arctodus pristinus – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Arctodus pristinus Quick Facts Common Name: Lesser short-faced bear Largest land carnivore in Florida during the early Pleistocene. Among living bears, most closely related to the spectacled bear of South America. Age Range Early to middle Pleistocene Epoch; Blancan and Irvingtonian
More fossils of this species are known from Florida (about 150) than anywhere else

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General Kirby Smith Collection – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Kirby Smith was a Confederate general, amateur botanist and academic. He collected plants wherever he was stationed during his long career. His plant collection, donated to the Museum, represents a snapshot of plant biodiversity during Kirby Smith’s time. Summary Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amp
Kirby Smith statue is soon to be removed from the Capitol and replaced by someone else

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
upon it, take what we’ve learned and how we could improve it, and make something else

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