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Miniature frogs set record as first vertebrates to lose the ability to balance – Research News

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Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and inch-long African frogs that spend their entire lives in and around the banks of small puddles. In fact, the title for the
Pinson • June 16, 2022 Brachycephalus frogs are so small, they appear to have

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Pinewoods Treefrog – Discover Herpetology

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Pinewoods Treefrog Scientific name: Hyla femoralis These very small frogs are sometimes called „Morse code frogs“ because of their distinct call. Their coloring helps them blend into the trees and leaves they inhabit, but you can usually tell them apart from similar frogs because of the spots on
Skin color varies from tans and browns to greens or grays, and they may have blotches

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Notes From Nature celebrates 10 years of community science – Research News

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There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural heritage. Notes From Nature is an online platform that allows anyone with an internet connection to advance that mission by helping move valuabl
• May 2, 2023 Since it got its start in 2013, more than 18,000 volunteers have

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Nicolas Gauthier leveraging AI to increase the value of museum collections – Research News

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Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
fields of science and the interdisciplinary collaborations that form as a result have

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Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest-known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family – Research News

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Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species
and Myrrh family by Jerald Pinson • December 19, 2023 Paleontologists have

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Florida Museum receives NAGPRA grant to aid repatriation efforts – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History has received a consultation/documentation grant for $99,897 from the National Park Service this month. The grant was one of several given to 16 tribal nations and 28 museums to support repatriation efforts. The Park Service distributed a total of $3.4 million th
As of 2022, museums across the country have returned 1.86 million funerary items

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Five Facts: Bees in Florida – Research News

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While we often think of bees as fuzzy, black and yellow-striped buzzy insects that live in hives like the honey bee, the truth is more gorgeous and diverse than that! Honey bees do a lot of agricultural labor for humans and are very important to farming, but here in North America most of these domes
In fact, people who identify bees for a living often have to look at really small

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Plain-bellied Watersnake – Florida Snake ID Guide

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NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Yellow-bellied Watersnake, Red-bellied Watersnake Basic description Most adult Plain-bellied Watersnakes are about 30-48 inches (76-122 cm) in total length. Adults are thick-bodied and are uniform greenish gray or reddish-brown in color with no patterning on the b
Cottonmouths have vertically elliptical (cat-like) pupils, whereas watersnakes have

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Underbite regained: Species feared extinct is the only frog with true teeth on its lower jaw – Research News

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In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out of the more than 7,000 living today, has true teeth on its lower jaw. The culprit, a large marsupial frog named Gastrotheca guentheri, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1882 for
This rare species, for which there have been no reported sightings since 1996, is

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Orchids in the Andes – Research News

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Lorena Endara, a Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant, discusses why she became a biologist and what inspired her to research orchids in her home country of Ecuador. Interview and videos produced by Erin Rauch for Explore Research at the University of Florida. https://www.you
Transcript Lorena Endara: I really was lucky to have a very encouraging and inspiring

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