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Mammalogy

An armadillo in the grass

Five Facts

Five Facts: Nine-banded armadillo

February 1, 2016

The nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, is a medium-size, armored mammal that is mostly nocturnal and lives in a great deal…
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A white bat in a researcher's glove

News in Brief

Why Science? Bat Research

January 31, 2014

University of Florida graduate student Kelly Speer talks about her interest in studying mammals and population variations by researching bat…
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bat specimens tagged in a drawer

News in Brief

Bat Dispersal in the Bahamas

January 12, 2014

University of Florida graduate student Kelly Speer discusses her research using DNA differences to learn about bat populations in the…
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A horizontal view of Pediculus humanus

Evolution

Study on worldwide lice DNA may lead to better treatment methods

February 27, 2013

A new study on louse evolution shows the parasite’s genetic structure differs based on geographic region, information essential for developing…
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A monkey with bronze hair on its head sits in a tree

News in Brief

Red Colobus Monkey Genetics

September 19, 2012

Julie Allen, an evolutionary biologist in UF’s department of biology, describes her research on the Red Colobus monkey in Uganda,…
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video screen shot, Researchers catch bats at night and examine them

Fieldwork

Catching Bats in the Caribbean

January 27, 2012

Doctoral biology student Angelo Soto-Centeno explains his research into how climate change has affected the diversity of bat populations across…
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magnified louse

Grants & Initiatives

Grant for worldwide human lice study

September 14, 2009

Florida Museum of Natural History mammalogist David Reed has received a $900,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award…
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Florida panther pelts

Collections

Florida panther conservation

January 2, 2008

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts….
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Pthirus Gorrilae

Evolution

Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues

March 7, 2007

New research indicating early humans acquired public lice from gorillas about 3.3 million years ago sheds new light on when…
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sloth fossil in museum exhibit

Life on Earth

Big-game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths

December 1, 2005

Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground…
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