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Biodiversity Research News from the Florida Museum
Dec 17, 2025
Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
Key points Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have discovered the first known instance of…
Sep 10, 2025
No eyes, no brain, no problem: Brittle stars have traveled the world over, and scientists have figured out how
A ncient, gangly cousins of sea stars, brittle stars crawl the seafloor on five flexible arms, which in some cases…
Sep 3, 2025
Paleontologists go back to the future, reconstruct fossilized functional diversity to inform conservation goals
Key points Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil…
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