Science Stories Archive
Archived Stories - 2009
(04/2009) Participants search for fossils at the Florida Museum of Natural History's 18th Annual Thomas Farm Fossil Dig, which took place this year from March 31 to April 5. The site, located about 45 miles northwest of Gainesville, contains...
(04/2009) Call it a galactic joy ride, but on Oct. 23, 2007, NASA's 120th shuttle mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. with hundreds of thousands of miniscule stowaways stashed inside the...
(03/2009) When it comes to invasive species in South Florida, the black spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis) holds its own. The Central American native isn't imported for the pet trade like the green iguana...
(03/2009) When asked if mountains grow slowly and steadily versus in rapid spurts, most people intuitively gravitate to the "slow and steady" model. Mountains, we are taught, take an incomprehensively...
(03/2009) Contrary to previous evidence, a new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by the Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate...
(02/2009) When most people hear the words Guantanamo Bay, they immediately think of the infamous prison built there in 2001. But for Roger Portell, an invertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Guantanamo means the chance to collect...
(01/2009) Commonly known as the paper tree (arbol de papel) due to its papery layers of bark, the genus grows in forests far beyond the elevation of other trees. These patches provide habitat on a harsh...
(01/2009) Worldwide, there are only 75 known instances of unprovoked bull shark attacks and 23 human fatalities on record in the International Shark Attack Files, a global database...