The man behind the world’s largest private shell collection
Volunteer Harry Lee has been transferring shells to the Florida Museum one car load at a time for eight years….
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Former shark program director Burgess retires, will focus on research
Throughout his more than 40-year career at the University of Florida, George Burgess gained an international reputation with the media…
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2017 ‘average’ year for shark attacks, deaths
With 88 reported unprovoked shark attacks and five fatalities worldwide, 2017 was “just an average year,” according to the University…
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Behold, the ancient ones
Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized…
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Randell Research Center adds two additional Calusa mounds
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Randell Research Center on Pine Island near Fort Myers, once home to the Calusa Indians, has…
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iDigBio effort awarded $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections
The National Science Foundation has awarded six grants totaling about $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections, a nationwide effort coordinated…
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Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy
Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Donation of Lepidoptera collection will boost biodiversity research
A gift of more than 2 million butterfly and moth specimens to the University of Florida contains hundreds and possibly…
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New butterfly species naming rights auctioned for $40,800
Surprisingly, McGuire Center Collections Manager George Austin came across the species while curating butterflies in the Florida Museum, which houses…
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Head lice research supports direct contact between modern, archaic humans
New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to…
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