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News in Brief

two researchers look at back lit screen that is covered in moths

News in Brief

Why Science? Lepidopterology

June 6, 2012

Akito Kawahara, an assistant professor and curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains why he became…
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Larry Page holding a specimen in the Florids Museum's ichthyology collection

Awards & Honors

Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections

June 4, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of…
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video screen shot, Researchers catch bats at night and examine them

Fieldwork

Catching Bats in the Caribbean

January 27, 2012

Doctoral biology student Angelo Soto-Centeno explains his research into how climate change has affected the diversity of bat populations across…
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Delano Lewis with butterfly specimens

News in Brief

Researchers discover ‘green’ pesticide effective against citrus pests

January 17, 2012

Florida Museum researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars…
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video screen shot - orange starfish

Florida Biodiversity

Florida’s Gulf Coast Marine Biodiversity

November 28, 2011

Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology curator Gustav Paulay discusses his mission to fully document the marine biodiversity of…
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scientists using net to catch fish

News in Brief

Updated field guide includes more than 100 newly recognized fish species

July 18, 2011

While Florida Museum of Natural History ichthyologist Larry Page collected specimens in Thailand this spring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released one…
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Video frame, labidolemur kayi

Collections

Labidolemur kayi: Bizarre Extinct Mammal

May 18, 2011

Meet Jonathan Bloch, Florida Museum associate curator of vertebrate paleontology, as he presents new fossil evidence of an exceptionally well-preserved…
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Save the sawfish effort, video screen shot

News in Brief

The joint effort to save sawfish

March 4, 2011

Hear the International Sawfish Encounter Database‘s George Burgess, renowned marine wildlife artist Guy Harvey and Chris Peterson of Hell’s Bay…
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Gustav Paulay holds a spiny invertebrate specimen in a jar

Fieldwork

Researchers begin mission Friday to study Gulf of Mexico biodiversity

March 3, 2011

A group of 23 researchers led by Florida Museum scientist Gustav Paulay will leave from St. Petersburg Friday on an expedition to…
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hands digging in dirt for fossil

Community Science

Fossil-digging volunteers strengthen Museum collections

February 1, 2011

For a few weeks each year, dozens of people stop their everyday activities to put on clothes they don’t mind…
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