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swift creek pottery sample

Cultural Heritage

New book sheds light on importance of pottery to early peoples

February 1, 2011

A new book by a Florida Museum researcher challenges traditional theories about the exchange of prehistoric pottery and its value…
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Amborella trichopoda

News in Brief

Behind the scenes: sequencing genome of ancient flowering plant

December 15, 2010

Meet the University of Florida researchers who are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a…
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Ice Age Tusks, video

Fieldwork

Exploring north Florida rivers for ice age tusks

October 4, 2010

This video takes viewers on location to the Aucilla River in northwest Florida where Museum scientists search underwater for mammoth…
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digging in Panama

Fieldwork

Research, education initiative to take place in Panama

August 1, 2010

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are leading a research and education project in Panama with the help of a…
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Paddle boarder in the ocean

News in Brief

The why, where and when of leading shark attack site

May 26, 2010

Shark attacks are most likely to occur on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon…
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Tom Webber listens to bird recordings

Collections

Bird sound recordings going digital

February 1, 2010

Ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are preparing to digitize nearly all of the museum’s analog bird-sound field…
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sea urchin

Fieldwork

DNA sequenced for entire Pacific island

January 2, 2010

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of…
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vials in yellow tray

Collections

20,000th specimen added to genetic repository cryogenic freezer

December 1, 2009

The Florida Museum of Natural History has added specimen number 20,000 to its Genetic Resources Repository, a nitrogen-cooled freezer with…
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specimens of the Large Copper butterfly from England

Collections

Donation of Lepidoptera collection will boost biodiversity research

October 13, 2009

A gift of more than 2 million butterfly and moth specimens to the University of Florida contains hundreds and possibly…
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calm water with heavy fog

Fieldwork

Catch and release

September 1, 2009

The sun had barely broken over the trees as Jason Romine, a research biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural…
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