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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
Jerald Pinson • June 16, 2022 Brachycephalus frogs are so small, they appear to 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
studying the cultural history of ancient civilizations and the ways in which people have

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John Slapcinsky – People

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Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Special Collections Building 3207 Hull Road University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-273-1829 slapcin@flmnh.ufl.edu Collection Invertebrate Zoology Education M.S., University of Virginia B.S., George Mason University Research Interests I
efforts to sample the terrestrial snails of the islands of New Guinea and Madagascar have

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Pollination ecology and conservation – Daniels Lab

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Research in the Daniels Lab focuses on areas of managed green space in urban and suburban environments that are often overlooked in the context of conservation efforts, including roadsides, residential yards, and utility rights of way. In recent years, both wild and domesticated insect pollinators h
In recent years, both wild and domesticated insect pollinators have suffered major

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Maryland Darter – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Biologists discovered the Maryland Darter in 1912 in a creek in Maryland, and the reclusive fish wasn’t seen again until being found in a different creek in the 1960s. Infrequent sightings of the fish continued until it was last seen in 1988. Summary Maryland Darter (Etheostoma sellare) From Ha
the only species of freshwater fish in the United States known with certainty to have

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Soils – Environmental Archaeology

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Archaeopedology at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Sylvia J. Scudder The Site Setting Volusia County, FL is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by the St. Johns River. The landscape is formed from a series of beach ridges and terraces that accumulated tens of thousa
lakes and marshes provide a rich variety of habitats and animal resources that have

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Family tree of ‘boring’ butterflies shows they’re anything but – Research News

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Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
the rainforests of Peru and Brazil, but even the most seasoned butterfly experts have

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Genetic Resource Repository – Research News

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Pamela Soltis, a curator and distinguished professor of molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the museum’s Genetic Resource Repository, including its history and impact on research. Soltis, who also is a member of the UF Genetics Institut
purpose of housing DNA samples, RNA samples, and frozen tissues so that we could have

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Protecting a sunken ancient world – Research News

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Probing the contours of some of the world’s most dangerous underwater caves: that’s how Brian Kakuk discovered the Bahamas’ oldest crocodile, tortoise and even human remains—remnants of a sunken world. For four years, the expert diver and scientists, including University of Florida ornithologist
From a scientific standpoint, we have basically been here since the splitting of

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