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Invertebrate Zoology

Photograph of a black background with various brightly colored marine worms.

Life on Earth

100 new ribbon worm species and counting

June 10, 2025

Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in…
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Features

A natural history of the Red Sea and the uncertain future of its corals

April 3, 2024

Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They’d flown…
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Seashell on white background

Profiles

The immense journey: The life of Harry Lee, in the words of those who knew him

February 27, 2024

In his book, “The Immense Journey,” anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, “If there is magic in this world, it is contained…
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A small snail shell is held between two fingers, with a human eye dominating the background.

Life on Earth

Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity hot spot at risk

January 16, 2024

Nine new species of carnivorous land snails have been found in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity…
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composite of several freshwater mussel shells, showing the top and bottom of each specimen in a rectangular grid.

Grants & Initiatives

Scientists create 3D models of freshwater mussels to help save them from extinction

August 22, 2023

Scientists and imaging specialists have teamed up to help save one of the world’s most endangered groups of animals: freshwater…
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Life on Earth

Scientists discover hidden crab diversity among coral reefs

March 29, 2023

The Indo-West Pacific is the largest, most biodiverse marine ecosystem on Earth, and many of the species it supports have…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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