iDigBio receives $15.5 million grant to digitize collections
Fossil primates, ancient mollusks and exotic butterflies will soon be coming to your home—as long as you have a personal…
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Genetic Resource Repository
Pamela Soltis, a curator and distinguished professor of molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Mammal collections and the Florida panther
Verity Mathis, mammal collections manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the importance of mammal collections and the…
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Museum reaches 500,000 digitized mollusks online, largest worldwide
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently surpassed half a million cataloged mollusk specimen records in its online database, making…
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What lies within
Encased in hard rock, the bones of many fossilized mammals are only partially visible for scientists to study. A poor…
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Why Science? Ichthyology
Rob Robins, a senior biologist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Division, explains his background and what led…
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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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Bird calls on demand
While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected…
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97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past
Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological…
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Florida Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes what it takes to create and build…
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