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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Museum receives $339,000 to digitize invertebrate collections
Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology researchers recently received a National Science Foundation grant to further digitize the department’s…
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Museum receives $455,000 grant to curate, digitize vertebrate fossils
A new National Science Foundation grant allows scientists to prepare vertebrate paleontology specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Museum researchers receive $53,000 to digitize ancient Mayan collection
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers recently received $53,000 to enhance the museum’s online database of Mayan artifacts. The two-year…
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Sea turtle, herpetology collection photos
A sea turtle specimen from our Herpetology Collection. © Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Kristen Grace Also
Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections
Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of…
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UF, FSU receive $10 million for project to digitize U.S. biology collections
The National Science Foundation announced today its award of a $10 million grant to the University of Florida and Florida State University to coordinate 92…
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Scientists receive rare giant squid for research
One of the mysterious legends of the sea, the giant squid has haunted sailors for hundreds of years. From the…
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Labidolemur kayi: Bizarre Extinct Mammal
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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