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Researchers work across fields to uncover information about hadrosaur teeth

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An unusual collaboration between researchers in two disparate fields resulted in a new discovery about the teeth of 65-million-year-old dinosaurs.

Filed under Engineering, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Thursday, October 11, 2012.

New UF study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals.

Filed under Florida, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

UF scientists name new ancient camels from Panama Canal excavation

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The discovery of two new extinct camel species by University of Florida scientists sheds new light on the history of the tropics, a region containing more than half the world’s biodiversity and some of its most important ecosystems.

Filed under Natural History, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, February 29, 2012.