Graduate student receives grant to study pitcher plants
Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Nicholas “Nic” Miles recently received a $13,500 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement…Read More
Researchers help pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution
Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution…Read More
Flowering plant study ‘catches evolution in the act’
A new Florida Museum study shows when two flowering plants are crossed to produce a new hybrid, the new species’ genes are…Read More
Behind the scenes: sequencing genome of ancient flowering plant (Watch)
Meet the University of Florida researchers who are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a…Read More
UF researchers help sequence genome of ancient flowering plant
In a letter to his friend and colleague, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin referred to the sudden and rapid diversification…Read More
Graduate student receives biology teaching award
Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Paul Corogin recently received the University of Florida biology department’s Graduate Student 2009…Read More
Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award
Florida Museum graduate student Maribeth Latvis recently received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is given…Read More
An early bloom of evolution
Florida Museum researchers find that a rapid burst of flowering plants 90 million years ago set the stage for bursts…Read More
Non-native reforestation brings risk of hybridization in Andes
Far up in the Ecuadorian Andes, human encroachment is steadily overtaking Polylepis forests, a distinctive and ecologically important feature of…Read More
Flowering plants evolved quickly into five groups
Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called…Read More