Honoring lifelong reptile and amphibian expert Joseph Mitchell
Valued herpetologist and Florida Museum of Natural History research associate Joseph Mitchell died on July 2. Widely known for his…
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Underground movement: The secret lives of geophytes
Plants may seem like some of nature’s most passive creatures, but some have a say in how they live and…
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Museum volunteers discover new species of extinct heron at North Florida fossil site
When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn’t made by…
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Florida Museum students awarded NSF graduate fellowships
Three Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a competitive funding…
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In Gabon with a professional frog-catcher
University of Florida Ph.D. student Gregory Jongsma has been obsessed with Africa’s wildlife since his childhood. Not the animals you…
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Invertebrate zoology division to add new collections with NSF grant
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology will incorporate new collections with the help of a National…
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Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in A.D. 400
Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food” eaten…
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Alumni Q&A: Angelo Soto-Centeno
“I think one thing from the Florida Museum that I’ll always take with me is how approachable my collaborators were…
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Packing a suitcase for the future
As University of Florida archaeologist Bill Keegan studies the ancient Lucayan people, inhabitants of the Caribbean for hundreds of years,…
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Florida monarch butterfly populations have dropped 80 percent since 2005
A 37-year survey of monarch populations in North Central Florida shows that caterpillars and butterflies have been declining since 1985…
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