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Elizabeth “Liz” Wing helped create the field now known as environmental archaeology, the study of how people have interacted with plants, animals and landscapes over past millennia. She spent her nearly 50-year career entirely at the University of Florida where she founded the Florida Museum of Natural History’s environmental archaeology program.
In an analysis of nearly 100 North Florida flocks, Florida Museum of Natural History researchers found similar bird species were significantly more likely to flock together than hunt alone, working as a group to stay safe from predators while cruising the canopy in search of insects.
The two-year Fellowship, which comes with an award of $150,000, recognizes researchers for “distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.”
With the help of digital technology, UF professor plans to bring the history of a devastated town to the present
The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is using a $5-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to teach K-9 educators how to use sensors and probes as a means of collecting and analyzing data in order to build core concept models for students.
The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years.
Shark attacks were unusually low for the second year running, with 64 unprovoked bites in 2019, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File.
Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men – stories long dismissed as myths. A new study suggests Columbus may have been telling the truth.
Experts have mistaken the chanchita, Cichlasoma dimerus, for a look-alike invasive species, the black acara, in Florida for at least 20 years. Both species belong to the cichlid family, in which species can often be difficult to distinguish from one another.
How do you bandage a manatee or sedate a 50-ton whale? Throughout his career, University of Florida professor Mike Walsh and his colleagues have invented countless ways to heal stranded, sick, orphaned or injured aquatic creatures.
Researchers have discovered a novel method of culturing long-spined sea urchins, a species that is ecologically vital to the Florida Keys’ vulnerable coral reefs. The team will breed urchins for use in the Mission: Iconic Reefs project, a multi-partner coral reef restoration initiative announced earlier today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The ranking is based on a National Science Foundation study that also found UF's total expenditures on research increased more than the national average.
Scientists have unraveled the mystery of what happened to dinosaurs in North China.
These findings represent a previously undescribed mode of autocrine signaling that may also extend to many other cell types and tissues known to utilize gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA) signaling.
Changes in the timing of spring leaves and flowers could set off a cascade of effects, threatening species’ wellbeing, disrupting agriculture and potentially causing longer or more severe allergy seasons.