#FloridaMuseumScience – Research News from the Florida Museum of Natural History

man holding plant specimen

Remembering botanist Mark Whitten

April 18, 2019

A brown frog

In Gabon with a professional frog-catcher

April 16, 2019

A white and brown shell

Invertebrate zoology division to add new collections with NSF grant

April 9, 2019

tiger beetle sits atop a scientist's fingers

Tiger beetles: fierce hunters, fast movers

April 5, 2019

A West Indian top shell

Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in A.D. 400

March 26, 2019

Awards + Honors

Akito Kawahara named UF Research Foundation professor

April 19, 2019
Austin, Bullen 2019 student research award winners named

March 28, 2019
UF Earth systems institute welcomes Rebecca Burton as communications manager

February 22, 2019

Featured Collection

Herbarium + Botany

man holding plant specimen

Remembering botanist Mark Whitten

April 18, 2019

field of white clover

Five Facts: Clover in Florida

March 13, 2019

leaves and fruit of Hearts-a-bustin

Five Facts: Hearts-a-bustin’ in Florida

February 13, 2019

Pam Soltis

Pamela Soltis joins National Academies committee on future of biological collections

December 6, 2018

A painting of red flowers

Forgotten for decades, rediscovered watercolor collection features hundreds of Florida plants

October 22, 2018

Lucas Majure looking into microscope

Succulent expert Lucas Majure hired as UF Herbarium’s assistant curator

October 3, 2018

#Science!

The Fun Side of Science

tiger beetle sits atop a scientist's fingers

Tiger beetles: fierce hunters, fast movers

April 5, 2019

man reaching for mangrove plant

Austin, Bullen 2019 student research award winners named

March 28, 2019

field of white clover

Five Facts: Clover in Florida

March 13, 2019

leaves and fruit of Hearts-a-bustin

Five Facts: Hearts-a-bustin’ in Florida

February 13, 2019

limpkin in museum exhibit

Five Facts: Limpkins in Florida

January 26, 2019

A painting of red flowers

Forgotten for decades, rediscovered watercolor collection features hundreds of Florida plants

October 22, 2018

Biodiversity

Life on Earth

20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America’s oldest marine mammal

February 18, 2019
Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions

December 31, 2018
New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian

December 5, 2018

More

Hellbender adult

House hunting for hellbenders: Pick right-sized rock or be eaten by cannibal neighbors

March 25, 2019

orange-brown frog with white speckles

Meet India’s starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage

March 12, 2019

two sandhill cranes in flight

How to take a census of Earth’s biodiversity? One team of researchers has a plan

March 11, 2019

three large shark teeth

How megalodon’s teeth evolved into the ‘ultimate cutting tools’

March 4, 2019

weathered plant grows in dry, cracked landscape

Plants’ drought alert system has unlikely evolutionary origin: underwater algae

February 25, 2019

fossil sea cow skull seen from side

20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America’s oldest marine mammal

February 18, 2019

blacktip reef shark underwater

Shark bites plummet, fatalities remain average in 2018

January 28, 2019

red tropical flower

Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions

December 31, 2018

black butterfly

New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian

December 5, 2018

CT scan of fossil jaw

Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia

November 29, 2018