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

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florida-museum-receives-nagpra-grant-to-aid-repatriation-efforts/

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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Over one-fifth of native North American pollinators at elevated risk of extinction – Research News

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A pivotal new study led by NatureServe reveals that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction. This first-of-its-kind, taxonomically diverse assessment evaluated nearly 1,600 species—including bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, flower flies, bats a
We also have a lot of plant diversity, which begets insect diversity.

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DNA duplication linked to the origin and evolution of pine trees and their relatives – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/gymnosperm-origin-evolution/

Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often duplicate their entire genome and hang on to the added genetic baggage. All those extra genes are then free to mutate and produce new physical traits, hastening the tempo of evolution
A new study shows that such duplication events have been vitally important throughout

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Mammoth Ivory Point with Incised Pattern – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, located in the End of the Pleistocene corner case. Summary Mammoth Ivory Point with Incised Pattern From Jefferson Co., Florida Lived/Made ~12,000 years ago Collection Florida Archaeology Story
Similar shaped tools of bone and ivory have been found across Florida as well as

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Brahminy Blindsnake – Florida Snake ID Guide

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/brahminy-blindsnake/

NON-VENOMOUS, NON-NATIVE Other common names Brahminy Blind Snake, Flowerpot Snake Basic description Most adult Brahminy Blindsnakes are about 4.4–6.5 inches (11.2–16.5 cm) in total length. These snakes are small, thin, and shiny silver gray, charcoal gray, or purple. The head and tail both appea
They have now been found from Key West north throughout much of the peninsula, and

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Fingerprints of ancient forests offer rare look at Florida 16 million years ago – Research News

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Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida’s largest slice of visible bedrock towers more than 100 feet above the surrounding banks. With a rich fossil record of plants, Alum Bluff offers a glimpse of Florida’s forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists
a glimpse of Florida’s forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists have

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