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Invertebrate Zoology

Two sand dollars and a heart urchin on a black background

Climate Change

Sea urchins keep on trucking while other marine life languishes in the Florida Keys

November 7, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the…Read More

Photograph of green building surrounded by trees

News in Brief

The Florida Museum of Natural History opens state-of-the-art collections building

October 6, 2022

The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding this month with the opening of a state-of-the-art special collections building on…Read More

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

Museum specimen of Medionidus walkeri

Collections

Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections

August 27, 2021

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical…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

Nihoa

Life on Earth

Remote Hawaiian island harbors last land snails of their kind

December 7, 2020

The island of Nihoa, a slice of jagged rock that juts out of the Pacific Ocean, is the sole refuge…Read More

pair of parasites

Features

Beware the underwater vampires

October 30, 2020

The sea is full of vampires, animals whose sustenance comes from the blood of other animals. We highlight five bloodsuckers…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

Portuguese man-o-war in shallow water

Five Facts

Five Facts: Portuguese man-of-war

September 24, 2020

The Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis, is found in every ocean except the Arctic and often washes up on Florida’s coasts….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

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Gainesville, FL 32611

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