Researchers recently discovered what was thought to be a distinct species of butterfly is actually the female of a species known to science for more than a cent...
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million specimen ...
The mass extinction that obliterated three-fourths of life on Earth, including non-avian dinosaurs, set the stage for the swift rise of frogs, a new study shows.
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck...
When thinking of mimicry, most people picture two things that look identical, with little difference in pattern or color.
In nature, the mimicking of one bri...
The relentless roar of natural gas compressors influences the numbers of insects and spiders nearby, triggering decreases in many types of arthropods sensitive to sounds and vibrations, a collaborative Florida Museum of Natural History study shows.
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University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program that uses 3-D p...
Plant biologist Doug Soltis has been elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an achievement considered one of the highest honors in American ...
A Florida Museum of Natural History study provides new insights into the complex, shared history between blood-sucking lice and the vitamin-producing bacterial sidekicks that enable them to parasitize mammals, including primates and humans.
Lice d...
Plant biologists Pam and Doug Soltis study the origin and evolution of flowering plants, plant genome evolution and conservation genetics. Florida Museum of Na...
