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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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Sawfish fin tagging

Fieldwork

Record number of endangered sawfish tagged

April 24, 2012

Scientists studying marine animals at the Florida Museum of Natural History seem to be living the high life, heading to…
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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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Larry Page photographing a fish specimen

Collections

UF, FSU receive $10 million for project to digitize U.S. biology collections

July 8, 2011

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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squid suctions close up

Collections

Scientists receive rare giant squid for research

July 1, 2011

One of the mysterious legends of the sea, the giant squid has haunted sailors for hundreds of years. From the…
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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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Closeup of a fossilized jaw

Collections

Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History

May 4, 2011

The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000…
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