Five Facts: Sawfishes in Florida
Sawfishes live in coastal tropical and subtropical waters, including estuaries and river systems. Once ranging from New York to Texas,…
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Rain & Loaches in Thailand
Collecting in the field can run the gamut from spending a beautiful day walking along a pristine river to being…
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Calling aspiring fossil hunters: Levy County excavation opens to volunteers Oct. 5
Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil…
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New project allows web users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out
A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch a new initiative to “teleport” specimens from museum shelves to the…
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Euptychiine Butterflies
Keith Wilmott, associate curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, discusses his research…
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Rare blanket octopus added to museum collection
A remarkably well-preserved blanket octopus washed ashore in Wilbur-by-the Sea Wednesday morning, offering “a rare glimpse of an animal that…
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Five Facts: Fossil shark teeth in Florida
Whether you’re a casual seeker or a passionate paleontologist, living in Florida puts a treasure trove of fossil shark teeth…
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Museum digitization program iDigBio rockets past 100 million specimen records
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million…
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Herbarium specimens provide snapshots of plants’ past, data for future
While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history. Whitten,…
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Miami Blue Butterflies
Once common throughout coastal southern Florida, the Miami blue butterfly now ranks among North America’s rarest insects. While the main…
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