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Gustav Paulay

Specimen image of a bryozoan showing its encrusting architecture along what appears to be an alga.

Evolution

Good parenting evolved multiple times in moss animals

April 6, 2022

The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first…Read More

Metridium farcimen

Life on Earth

Giant sea anemone eats ants

June 23, 2021

Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat…Read More

Mandy photographs specimen

Collections

NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails

October 29, 2020

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute…Read More

parasitic isopod

Life on Earth

Invasive shrimp-sucking parasite continues northward Pacific expansion

September 17, 2020

R esearchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia’s Calvert Island. The…Read More

mottled cream slug

Florida Biodiversity

Egg-sucking sea slug from Florida’s Cedar Key named after Muppets creator Jim Henson

June 18, 2019

Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea…Read More

white and brown shell

Collections

Invertebrate zoology division to add new collections with NSF grant

April 9, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology will incorporate new collections with the help of a National…Read More

Sea cucumbers specimens in glass jars

News in Brief

Sea Cucumbers with Gustav Paulay

August 18, 2016

Gustav Paulay, curator of marine malacology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains sea cucumbers and describes some of…Read More

jeweled topsnail

Collections

Museum reaches 500,000 digitized mollusks online, largest worldwide

February 5, 2016

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently surpassed half a million cataloged mollusk specimen records in its online database, making…Read More

Phyrella mookiei

Evolution

Rewriting the evolutionary history of sea cucumbers

July 14, 2014

Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History have discovered that a group of tiny sea cucumbers has enormous taxonomic…Read More

Jeffery Vadala and Lucas R. Martindale Johnson

Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2014 student research award winners named

April 7, 2014

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2014 Austin Award and Bullen Award. Two University…Read More

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