red tropical flower

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

black butterfly

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

CT scan of fossil jaw

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

A Caribbean cave

Packing a suitcase for the future: Introducing Bahamian schoolkids to native people of the past

interior of freshwater mussel

How ancient Mayan shell decor led to a new look at freshwater mussels south of the border

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Vertebrate paleontology

Jonathan Bloch appointed chair of department of natural history

scientist Natasha Vitek kneels on hill to dig for fossils

Florida Museum doctoral student wins $15,000 scholarship

shark jaws display

Five Facts: Megalodon

grooming claw fossil and nail fossil atop human fingernail

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

amber fossil with frog skull, forelimbs, backbone and a hind limb

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop

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interior of freshwater mussel

How ancient Mayan shell decor led to a new look at freshwater mussels south of the border

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

skunkvine infestation

Five Facts: Skunkvine in Florida

Two Diamondback Terrapin turtles found in the Cedar Keys.

Best way to learn about island biology? Live on an island

shark jaws display

Five Facts: Megalodon

These potatoes, a stem tuberous geophyte, were found in a grocery store in Harare, Zimbabwe, where they were being sold by the kilogram. Florida Museum photo by Cody Coyotee Howard

Five Facts: Geophytes

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