Students and faculty gathered at the University of Florida to protest an existing agreement between the UF Police Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, calling on university leadership to terminate it. Demonstrators described the arrangement as harmful, with participants at the rally characterizing it in strongly critical terms. The protest was covered by both the Gainesville Sun and the Independent Florida Alligator.
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Sources: The Independent Florida Alligator · The Gainesville Sun
A study from the Florida Museum of Natural History determined that barn owls first reached the Caribbean after crossing the Atlantic from Eurasia sometime before five million years ago, then diversified there before spreading to the Galápagos and the American continents. Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of several now-extinct giant barn owl species in the region, including one that stood roughly a meter tall and may have survived until humans arrived in the mid- to late Holocene. Researchers believe these massive owls likely inspired local Caribbean folklore about a giant creature called the chickcharney.
Sources: UF News
