University of Florida plant biologist Pam Soltis will receive the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award, given ann...
For hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring lengthy expeditions, sparking rivalries and prompting some...
Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing bat populations that last...
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...
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...
Take a look at this box of butterflies. How many species do you see?
How many species of butterflies are in this box? Take a guess.
You might be tempted ...
Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized and used in various ways by different cultures.
Frog toxins are remarkably potent in the human body and may be used to treat hea...
The well-preserved skull of an extinct tortoise species. Florida Museum of Natural History photo courtesy of Nancy Albury
An extinct tortoise species that a...
