Jonathan Nations joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as curator of mammals this April. Before delving into biology, he…

Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a…

A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice – once during the first…

Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles,…

“I think one thing from the Florida Museum that I’ll always take with me is how approachable my collaborators were…

First of all, there are no vampire bats in Florida! And bats are not rodents. They are in their own…

The University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated 100 years of inspiring people to care about life on…

Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a…

A Florida Museum of Natural History study provides new insights into the complex, shared history between blood-sucking lice and the…

Verity Mathis, mammal collections manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the importance of mammal collections and the…