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Florida Museum: Research
While its main focus is Florida, the southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean, the Florida Museum's many research projects span the globe…
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🧬 A penchant of ferns for hoarding DNA has stumped scientists, and the intractable size of their genomes has made it difficult to sequence, assemble and interpret them. 📸 Photo courtesy of David Randall of Western Sydney University #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Using 3D modeling from digitized museum specimens to better understand why frog arms, with radius and ulna bones fused together, are more successful during jumping and mating. 📸 Public domain illustration from "Discourse on Natural History" by Gottlieb Wilhelm #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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University Of Florida
Nitrogen
Research Projects
Thrive
The Globe
Environment
Hair Accessories
Museum
Diversify
Plants go to great lengths to get nitrogen. Many legumes partner with bacteria that harvest nitrogen for them, a relationship that surprisingly enabled them to diversify in dry environments. 📸 University of Florida Herbarium photo #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Ant Species
Human Species
Global Map
Treasure Maps
Invertebrates
Ants
Insects
Researchers from institutions around the world have charted the distribution of known and unknown ant species in the largest global map of insect diversity ever created. 📷 by Skyler Ewing, CC0 #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Shipwreck
Southeastern
Dna
Caribbean
Florida
Rewrite
Island
An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record have conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and Maryland coasts. 📷 photo by Jeff Gage / Florida Museum #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Clear Night Sky
Arms Race
Mimicry
Night Skies
Troops
Hearing
Moth
Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered what is likely the largest mimicry complex on Earth in moths that produce sounds above our range of hearing. 📷 Photo by Chandan Singh, CC BY 2.0 #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #Lepidoptera
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Moth Species
Hawk Moth
Discover
Grace
Riddler
The Florida
New hawk moth species are among the smallest ever discovered. 📸 by Kristen Grace #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch #Lepidoptera
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Making Waves
Central Florida
Crutchfield
Fish
Invade
Tolerant
In 2017, the non-native fish chanchita was found in southern Florida, where it had likely been swimming in disguise for nearly two decades. Now it's making waves as the most cold-tolerant of all FL's exotics, raising concerns about how far it might invade. 📷 courtesy of Ryan Crutchfield #FloridaMuseumOfNaturalHistory #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Indigenous Community
Caribbean Sea
Aquatic
Tease
Lindsay
Unexpected
Apart
Even the smallest Caribbean pottery sherd bears the elemental signature of the region it was made in, allowing researchers with lasers to tease apart the navigational history of the islands and reveal unexpected cultural hubs and trading networks. 📸 by Lindsay Bloch Rangers #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Ct Scan
Frog And Toad
Vertebrates
What Goes On
Amphibians
Miniatures
What's going on with these tiny pumpkin toadlets? They're too tiny to hop right and scientists used CT scans to figure out why. 📸 Photo by Ribeiro et al. (2017) CC-BY-NC #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Darien Panama
Oranjestad
Port Au Prince
Willemstad
Nassau
Miami Florida
Panama City Panama
Haiti
Caribbean and international scientists have collaborated on a new paper that examines the disparities of extractive science and colonialism in research opportunities, and looks for equitable solutions moving forward. #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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University Of Sheffield
Butterfly Species
National Science Foundation
Environmental Change
Catholic University
Walking In Nature
How To Level Ground
Planets
Researchers, students and park staff have been monitoring butterfly abundance as a proxy to document insect diversity in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, broadly considered to be one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.🦋 📷 courtesy of Yasuní Park Rangers #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Sea Turtle Shell
Billy Collins
Tortoise
Grands
History
Oversize
Sweet
Well preserved sea turtle shells and oversize iguana bones tell the story of when humans first arrived on Grand Turk 1,300 years ago. But it took a while, and some extra help, to solve a mystery about the tortoise remains they found! 🐢🐢 📷 Florida Museum #FloridaMuseumResearch #FloridaMuseum
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Invertebrate
Good Parenting
Zoology
Evolve
Moss
Dandelion
Bryozoans likely aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you envision child care, but a new study on the 600-million-year history of these obscure animals highlights the important role good parenting has played in their enduring success. 📷 Florida Museum Invertebrate Zoology #mosses #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Hispaniola
Plant Species
Tropical
Researchers described a thorny new plant species, Castela senticosa, from Hispaniola’s tropical dry forests — one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems. 📷 Florida Museum #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Devices
Species
Monteverde
Researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to study the behavior and activity of insects in the field. Akito Kawahara helped test Yash Sondhi's tool recently at Estación Biológica Monteverde and is optimistic it will provide necessary baseline data on species in decline. 📷 by Yash Sondhi #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Lava Flow
Continents
Rings For Men
Ancient
Volcanoes
Fruit
Fossils
Fossils of exploding fruit reveal tantalizing clues about shifting continents, massive volcanoes and plant evolution in changing landscapes. #FloridaMuseum 📷 by Kristen Grace #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Shark Bites
Attack
Steady
Report
The new 2021 🦈 International Shark Attack File report was just released by our shark research program. Bites are up this year after three years of steady decline. Image by Jane Dominguez/University of Florida. #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Life On Earth
Flo Rida
Enter
Global
Fungi
Milestone update on the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants, animals, fungi and other eukaryotic life on Earth. Florida Museum 📷 by Kristen Grace. #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Clay Pots
Archaeology
Experiments
Mud
Emily
Exploring Caribbean Archaeology 🔬🏝️🔥 Palmetto Ware, a type of pottery that was made in the Lucayan Islands, is very different from the typical Taíno pottery. Emily Kracht and Lindsay Bloch went to the Caribbean to investigate resources and returned to our Ceramic Technology Laboratory to experiment. 📷 by Lindsay Bloch. #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Habitat Destruction
River Basin
Andes Mountains
Poisonous Plants
Beautiful Butterflies
Natural History
Habitats
Researchers created the most detailed distribution map to date of butterflies in the American tropics, showing that areas of highest glasswing diversity coincide w/ regions most threatened by deforestation in the Andes Mountains. 📷 Courtesy of Keith Willmott #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Citizen Science
Natural Ecosystem
California National Parks
Joshua Tree National Park
Nature Journal
Yucca
Investigations
Researchers used #CitizenScience data to investigate the cause of an unseasonal bloom of Joshua trees and Mojave yuccas. Understanding their complex bloom triggers might help save these iconic plants from extinction. 📷 CC0 image by Renata Harrison #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Frog Species
Tooth Replacement
Grain Of Sand
Marsupial
Extinction
Jaw
Out of the more than 7,000 species of frogs living today, scientists have found one species that has true teeth on its lower jaw. 📷 Florida Museum image by Dan Paluh #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Archaeological Site
Earth
Ovens
Archaeological sites reveal a variety of cooking methods used by people living in the Caribbean before (and after) pottery became widely available, including grilling, stone boiling, earth ovens and the use of sea turtle shells and baskets. 📷 Courtesy of Bill Keegan #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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Florida Parks
Florida Keys
Biscayne National Park
Forest Preserve
Volunteer Work
Swallowtail
Park Service
Endangered Species
Volunteers have spent years trekking through mosquito-saturated forest preserves to count Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies 🦋 and researchers leading the monitoring and breeding program see a glimmer of hope for this federally endangered Florida species. 📷 by Chris Johns #FloridaMuseum #FloridaMuseumResearch
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