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Invertebrate Paleontology

Photograph of seagrass meadow. Half of the photo is underwater and half is above. The sun is near the center of the image and casts a bright sheen on the sky and water.

Florida Biodiversity

Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida’s largest remaining seagrass bed

May 15, 2025

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine…
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Florida Biodiversity

Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past

February 12, 2025

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region…
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Features

Florida Museum fossils go to space

February 10, 2025

The recent launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set…
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Life on Earth

Fossils from the Adriatic Sea show a recent and worrying reversal of fortunes

September 25, 2024

If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails…
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Awards & Honors

Michal Kowalewski named 2024 UF Research Foundation professor

May 10, 2024

Michal Kowalewski is among 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members named 2024 UF Research Foundation professors….
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Life on Earth

Human activity is making it harder for scientists to interpret oceans’ past

May 8, 2024

New research shows human activity is significantly altering the ways in which marine organisms are preserved, with lasting effects that…
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Profiles

The immense journey: The life of Harry Lee, in the words of those who knew him

February 27, 2024

In his book, “The Immense Journey,” anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, “If there is magic in this world, it is contained…
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Awards & Honors

Luis Torres wins first place in the University of Florida Three-Minute Thesis Competition

November 14, 2023

Luis Torres, a second-year doctoral student in the University of Florida’s department of geological sciences, has won first place in…
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Life on Earth

Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems

July 11, 2023

Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like…
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Awards & Honors

Stephanie Killingsworth receives award for outstanding geoscience graduate students

June 12, 2023

Stephanie Killingsworth has been named a recipient of the Winifred Goldring Award by the Association for Women Geoscientists. This national…
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