Winners of 2017 Austin and Bullen Awards announced
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2017 Austin Award and Bullen Award, given for student research and significant...
George Washington’s little buttercup
How an extinct ancestor of buttercups and poppies is helping solve Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’ Two men set out on the Potomac River in 1892...
World’s oldest-known grape fossils found in India
Mysterious unidentified fossilized seeds from India, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 2005 and stored among the museum’s botany...
Scientists search for grape fossils at long-forgotten site in Peru
In the spring of 2010, Steve Manchester, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of paleobotany, and Fabiany Herrera, a University of Florida doctoral...
Fossil reveals new genus of 125-million-year-old eudicot from China
A Florida Museum researcher has helped describe the earliest known fossil remains of a flowering plant from China that has a direct evolutionary relationship...
Pine Island pollen study leads to revision of state’s ancient geography
A new study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state’s geologic history,...