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The Symbiota division at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum is partnering with nine institutions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica on a new initiative to mobilize biodiversity collections in Central America.

The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum invites the public to support future graduate student recruitment and training at Biodiversity Bash on Friday, Sept. 25, at the new KU Conference Center, 815 Fambrough Drive. This vibrant event will bring together community members, scientists and graduate students for a night inspired by the wonders of the natural world.

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene. The research was published in the Journal of Human Evolution.

The KU Natural History Museum has announced the start of construction on the new accessible entrance from Jayhawk Boulevard to Dyche Hall, a donor-funded project designed to benefit all who visit.

Recent research appearing in the journal Science overturns a long-held idea that flowering plants didn’t evolve large fruits and seeds until after the mass extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, when Earth was smacked by a giant asteroid.

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum has launched a temporary exhibit titled “Collections from Around the World,” showcasing biological specimens from eight research divisions within the Biodiversity Institute.

The University of Kansas Ichthyology Division at the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum has reached a milestone of more than 45,000 cataloged lots, aided by a substantial collection from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

A National Science Foundation grant led by Town Peterson, University Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and senior curator with the KU Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, is uniting 21 U.S. herbaria, biodiversity data specialists and African researchers to create one of the largest digital resources of tropical African seed plants ever assembled.

Twenty-nine undergraduate and postbaccalaureate scholars supported by research training programs at Haskell Indian Nations University and KU will present posters of their research at the 26th annual Haskell-KU Student Research Symposium.

Variously horrific- or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding lures used for enticing prey or signaling during mating. Now, research from the University of Kansas is giving new detail to the evolutionary history of anglerfishes’ lures.