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In February, Project PI Carl Rothfels hosted an online mini-workshop for the Jepson Herbarium: Fiddleheads: Fern life cycles and identification. The workshop was recorded and the videos from the workshop are available here: Workshop description: We will cover the foundations … Continue reading →

Go behind the scenes to see how the Botanical Research Institute of Texas is contributing to the Pteridophyte Collections Consortium TCN in this presentation by BRIT Herbarium Assistant and former Fern TCN Lead Digitizer Jessica Lane from the Texas Plant … Continue reading →

The Pteridoportal (http://pteridoportal.org) now has 1,500,609 pteridophyte specimen records! Our Pteridophyte Collections Consortium TCN participants are making great progress as we begin year 3 of our project.

Learn about the exciting work the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) is doing as part of the Pteridophyte Collections Consortium: http://www.brit.org/cabinet-curiosities/ferns You can contribute to their work as a citizen scientist here: Notes from Nature (US SE Biodiversity) –> … Continue reading →

Paleontologic Data Fossilized on IBM 8” Floppies The Pennsylvanian (323-299 million years ago) is one of the most interesting time periods in Earth’s history. Giant dragonfly relatives like Meganeura (>2 ft wingspan!), 8-ft-long millipedes named Arthropleura, and early mammal-like reptiles lived in a … Continue reading →

Want to learn more about the Royal Fern family, Osmundaceae? PCC members Selena Smith, Robyn Burnham, and Garth Holman of University of Michigan wrote a nice article for this month’s IDigBio Biodiversity Spotlight: https://www.idigbio.org/content/april-2019-biodiversity-spotlight-0