Megalodon shark nursery discovered
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers have discovered a 10-million-year-old Neotropical nursery area for the extinct megalodon shark in Panama,…
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Bird sound recordings going digital
Ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are preparing to digitize nearly all of the museum’s analog bird-sound field…
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Scientist wins NSF CAREER Award for genetic plant research
Nico Cellinese, assistant curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History herbarium and informatics, has received a prestigious $865,000 CAREER…
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20,000th specimen added to genetic repository cryogenic freezer
The Florida Museum of Natural History has added specimen number 20,000 to its Genetic Resources Repository, a nitrogen-cooled freezer with…
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Grant for worldwide human lice study
Florida Museum of Natural History mammalogist David Reed has received a $900,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award…
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Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award
Florida Museum graduate student Maribeth Latvis recently received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is given…
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Plants on the move
Florida Museum of Natural History Paleobotany Curator Steve Manchester has concluded a three-year National Science Foundation project comparing 50-million-year old…
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$4.7 million grant will fund catfish biodiversity research
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and four other…
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