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Masters of the Night

The True Story of Bats

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Sun 1pm - 5pm

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Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida Cultural Plaza
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710

Science + Research News

May 21, 2018

40 years of friendship, 70,000 specimens: Amateur entomologists donate lifetimes’ worth of butterflies and moths
May 16, 2018

Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop
May 4, 2018

NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils
Apr 30, 2018

Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes

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Beverly and Jon Thompson Discovery Zone

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