Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal,…

Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often…

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean…

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de…

Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat…

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections...

An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as…

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously…

Scientists have long known that frogs are oddballs when it comes to teeth. Some have tiny teeth on their upper…

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added…