Science Stories Archives
Archived Stories 2006
(12/2006)This year (2006) marks the centennial of the Florida Museum on the University of Florida campus. Such a big number inspires reflection, and this combined with the 90th birthday of former director Joshua Clifton (J.C.) Dickinson prompted us to...
(11/2006) Some eclectic studies have passed through the doors of the ancient DNA lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History. When two pre-Columbian mummies were recovered from Peru, the researchers discovered that the disembodied heads probably...
(09/2006) As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked forward to a good harvest. They sure weren't thinking about rhinoceroses...
(07/2006) Atlantean columns with the heads lopped off are evidence of a catastrophic revolt at Mayapan. Archaeologists from the Carnegie Institution never found the heads when excavating the city some 50 years ago. These extraordinary heads are...
(06/2006) In 426 AD, a noble we now know as K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Great Sun First Quetzal Macaw), arrived in the Copán Valley of Honduras, Central America, and founded a dynasty of Maya kings that endured for over 400 years...
(05/2006) Every so often scientists discover a plant or animal that was thought to be extinct. A dramatic example is the Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), a prehistoric-looking fish found off the coast of Madagascar in 1938...
(03/2006) During your last trip to the beach you may have noticed the concentric rings on seashells you pulled from the sand and wondered if you could count them to determine the age of the animal like you would tree rings....
(01/2006) Thanks to the Florida limestone mining industry and to the owners and operators of the quarries, scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are investigating the fauna and flora preserved in the Avon Park Formation, the oldest rock unit exposed...