A monarch feeds on a purple flower

Florida monarch butterfly populations have dropped 80 percent since 2005

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

panoramic view of Cedar Keys

New Earth systems institute to communicate environmental issues to Floridians

orange and blue butterflies

Study provides road map for measuring animal, plant traits to meet global biodiversity goals

bars of sediment

The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions

Awards + Honors

Featured Collection

Vertebrate paleontology

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

Cuban crocodile fossil skull

NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils

Rachel in the field

Florida Museum doctoral student receives NSF graduate fellowship

#Science!

The Fun Side of Science

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

drawer of sack-bearer moth specimens

Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths

Biodiversity

Life on Earth

More