Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years at the Florida Museum of Natural History
In 1977, Bruce MacFadden accepted a curatorial position with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Since then,…
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Three new extinct walnut species discovered in high Arctic mummified forest
In a new study, scientists describe three new, but long-extinct, walnut species on an island above the Arctic Circle. The…
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Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a…
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Florida mints radiated as peninsula sank and resurfaced during ice ages
During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew…
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iDigBio receives $20 million from NSF to sustain U.S. museum digitization efforts
T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide,…
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NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute…
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Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the…
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Museum digitization program iDigBio rockets past 100 million specimen records
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million…
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iDigBio: Why Digitize
Recently iDigBio produced a video discussing digitization of collections, featuring the Florida Museum collections and scientists to illustrate a common…
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iDigBio receives $15.5 million grant to digitize collections
Fossil primates, ancient mollusks and exotic butterflies will soon be coming to your home—as long as you have a personal…
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