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Jan 28, 2019
Shark bites plummet, fatalities remain average in 2018
While several high-profile shark bites made headlines last year, the total number of shark attacks globally took a nosedive. The University of Florida’s...
Dec 31, 2018
Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions
A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant...
Dec 5, 2018
New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
More than three centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a...