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Climate Change

Global warming dramatically changed ancient forests

November 10, 2005

Palmettos in Pennsylvania? Magnolias in Minnesota? The migration of subtropical plants to northern climates may not be too far-fetched if…
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Jonathan Bloch and Doug Boyer

Evolution

Discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals

October 1, 2005

“Into Africa” rather than “Out of Africa” could well be the better description of how certain mammals originated and spread…
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Spanish Mission

Cultural Heritage

Archaeologists uncover little-known chapter in US history

October 1, 2005

Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a…
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transitional horse from fossil hall exhibit

Evolution

Ideas about fossil horses undergo evolution in thinking

August 1, 2005

The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher whose…
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deer hunting camp

Cultural Heritage

Frolicking bears and other oddities

June 5, 2005

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken…
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Monarchs in flight

Life on Earth

The astonishing Monarch

May 1, 2005

Imagine walking into a towering cathedral draped with million-faceted curtains of orange-gold and black, shimmering in the morning sunlight. Then…
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rain falling on a roadway

Life on Earth

Heavy rains lead to toad, frog population explosion

March 1, 2005

Four hurricanes visited Florida in 2004: Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne. Charley crossed the southern peninsula from southwest to northeast….
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David holds up bone louse comb

Evolution

Head lice research supports direct contact between modern, archaic humans

January 1, 2005

New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to…
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Bill Keegan

Cultural Heritage

St. Lucia bypassed during initial settlement of the Anitilles

December 1, 2004

To the west stretched the vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea; to the north rose the magnificent Pitons, the symbol…
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dark fish laying on large yellow hard coral

Life on Earth

Atlantic corals unique, cannot be replaced if lost

September 1, 2004

The discovery that many Caribbean corals are only distantly related to their counterparts in the Pacific Ocean makes the threats…
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