Mission accessible: Florida’s historic Spanish missions go digital
Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched…
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Wrens aplenty and gulls galore: Highlights from the 2019 Gainesville Christmas Bird Count
The 62nd John Hintermister Gainesville Christmas Bird Count saw a profusion of great blue herons, flycatchers and whistling ducks –…
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‘Netherworldly’ freshwater fish named for Thai conservation visionary
At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one…
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How we stuff a turkey at the Florida Museum
The Florida Museum of Natural History added its own stuffed turkey to the estimated 45 million birds about to be…
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How can scientists engage the public? New book offers best practices
Scientists are increasingly breaking away from the lab or leaving their computer screens to talk to the public about their…
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Environmental archaeology receives NSF grant to curate specimens before data go ‘dark’
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology Program received a nearly $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to curate some…
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Taíno origin story comes to life in animated video by TED-Ed, Museum archaeologist
Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologist William Keegan collaborated with TED-Ed to produce a video dramatization of how the world…
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A kaleidoscope of monarchs: Marveling at one of nature’s greatest journeys
Our horses breathed deep but kept a steady pace as we ascended to 10,000 feet above sea level, scanning the…
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Are shark teeth fossils true fossils?
We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum’s vertebrate…
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New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren
Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12….
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