#MuseumLife, Bald Eagle Specimen
Bald eagle Scientific name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus Specimen: UF-O-52443 Although bald eagles were on the brink of extinction due to habitat loss…
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Luna moth caterpillars vs. brown anoles
Florida Museum researcher Andrei Sourakov recently published a paper in the Journal of Natural History on his observations of the…
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#MolluskMonday, Unionidae or river mussels
Unionidae is a family of freshwater mussels with a global range. There are about 300 recognized species in North America…
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Rain & Loaches in Thailand
Collecting in the field can run the gamut from spending a beautiful day walking along a pristine river to being…
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Jaret Daniels named UF Research Foundation Professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum researcher Jaret Daniels a UFRF Professor for 2017-2020. Daniels is associate…
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North Andean Clearwing genus Pteronymia reclassified
Florida Museum researcher Keith Willmott and peers reclassified the genus Pteronymia in a new paper, adding six species for a…
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2017 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants
Congratulations to our grad students! Four Florida Museum grad students have been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants. These are…
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Our 2017 NSF GRFP recipients
Several of our current or former students received NSF GRFPs this year. The National Science Foundation had more than 13,000 applications,…
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Philodoria & Science with Chris Johns
Scientist Bio: Chris A. Johns Eventually, Chris Johns hopes to slow down and spend his retirement surfing and hanging out,…
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Jawfish, bandfish and systematist William Smith-Vaniz
Our ichthyology Research Associate William Smith-Vaniz has described a new species of jawfish, Opistognathus ensiferus, in a paper published in Zootaxa…
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