Moths may use disco gene to regulate day/night cycles
How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most…
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Advait Jukar joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of vertebrate paleontology
The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus…
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First local extinction in the U.S. due to sea level rise
The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is…
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Supercharged professional development helps educators talk climate change
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers evaluated how a type of professional development, called train-the-trainer, could…
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Michelle LeFebvre receives 2024 UF excellence award for assistant professors
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Michelle LeFebvre is a recipient of this year’s University of Florida excellence awards for…
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Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history
It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants…
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New $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to study phenomenon affecting agriculture, cancer, biodiversity and more
It’s in your heart and liver, in the vegetables you eat, in the rogue cells that cause cancer. Those who…
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Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making
There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America,…
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New faculty highlight: Jonathan Nations, curator of mammals
Jonathan Nations joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as curator of mammals this April. Before delving into biology, he…
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New staff highlight: Amanda Hall, collection manager for Florida and Caribbean archaeology and bioarchaeology
Amanda Hall has had a lifelong passion for history. As a child, she spent countless hours in museums admiring exhibits…
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