Tiger beetles: fierce hunters, fast movers
Tiger beetles are jewel-toned insects that run so fast, they have to stop to see where they’re going. These long-legged…
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Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths
Ryan St Laurent, a doctoral student at the Florida Museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, studies an obscure, strange…
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#MuseumLife, Bald Eagle Specimen
Bald eagle Scientific name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus Specimen: UF-O-52443 Although bald eagles were on the brink of extinction due to habitat loss…
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#MuseumLife, The Killdeer Specimen
Specimens are often donated to the Florida Museum by local residents and citizen scientists. If they hold scientific value or…
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