Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12.…

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions…

Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones…

The National Science Foundation awarded the Florida Museum of Natural History a $500,000 grant to develop a research coordination network…

It may seem as though the same brown moths circle your porch light each night. But a two-year survey of…

Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely…

Florida scientists have tagged a deep-sea shark from a submersible, a historic first that took three expeditions, more than 2,000…

When Jeff Weakley tweezed open a blister-like bulge on his foot, he was not expecting to find a piece of…

In the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” the Demogorgon – a humanlike predatory creature whose face opens like a flower to…

Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea…