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News in Brief

Randell Research Center teams up with GatorCorps and Gulf Scholars to tackle climate change on Pine Island, Florida

December 18, 2024

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast…
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New book brings prehistoric mammals to life

October 8, 2024

After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched…
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Using genomics to immortalize and protect McCarty Woods on UF Campus

April 25, 2024

McCarty Woods is a 2.9-acre conservation area at the heart of the University of Florida’s central campus. The beautiful, species-diverse…
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News in Brief

New book charts the history and evolution of world’s butterflies

April 9, 2024

In a new book, a father and daughter scientist duo explore the 100-million-year history of butterflies. From their inauspicious origin…
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The Florida Museum of Natural History opens state-of-the-art collections building

October 6, 2022

The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding this month with the opening of a state-of-the-art special collections building on…
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dead birds

News in Brief

Northeast Florida ‘Lights Out’ project aims to reduce bird collision deaths

September 13, 2021

Each fall, millions of migratory birds fly over Florida under the cover of night, hightailing it south for the winter….
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Education Research

School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate

June 7, 2021

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously…
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Florida Biodiversity

Attuned to loons: Birders track an obscure Florida flyway

July 15, 2020

An hour after sunrise, Andrew Kratter stands in the dew-soaked grass of an East Gainesville graveyard, watching the sky for…
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passionflower

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New books present the PhyloCode, an evolution-based system for naming organisms

June 8, 2020

Move over, Linnaeus: There’s a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years…
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News in Brief

‘Netherworldly’ freshwater fish named for Thai conservation visionary

December 16, 2019

At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one…
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