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Person stands next to a table stacked with boxes of butterfly specimens one hand resting on the glass of lid of a box. Behind him are rows of shelves with more specimen drawers

Collections

Endowment brings influx of expertise to the McGuire Center

February 15, 2023

Early in 2022, the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity launched its first travel award program for visiting researchers. A…Read More

TESI logo of a planet with earth, ocean, a leaf, and air

News in Brief

Ennead Architects selected for Powell Hall building expansion

October 18, 2022

Ennead Architects, a New York City-based firm that specializes in transformative design for public institutions, has been selected to lead…Read More

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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…Read More

a bee with lots of pollen is flying towards a tuft of soft pink flowers

Five Facts

Five Facts: Bees in Florida

August 5, 2022

While we often think of bees as fuzzy, black and yellow-striped buzzy insects that live in hives like the honey…Read More

Tortoise shell on a black background

Cultural Heritage

Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise

April 25, 2022

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once…Read More

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News in Brief

Audubon Christmas Bird Count concludes in North Florida with familiar faces, first-timers and shifting migrations

January 14, 2022

The annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count concluded last week with volunteers tallying bird sightings in 28 countries throughout North, Central…Read More

Taíno sisters and a child mold clay to make pottery and knead cassava dough for bread

Cultural Heritage

Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands

January 11, 2022

In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…Read More

Shelly Gaynor collecting plants along a slope

Fieldwork

Students return to the field with the aid of museum travel awards

October 21, 2021

Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…Read More

Researcher marking a Schaus' swallowtail with a sharpie for catch and release observation

Community Science

Florida volunteers see record numbers of endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly

September 16, 2021

F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service…Read More

dead birds

News in Brief

Northeast Florida ‘Lights Out’ project aims to reduce bird collision deaths

September 13, 2021

Each fall, millions of migratory birds fly over Florida under the cover of night, hightailing it south for the winter….Read More

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Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL 32611

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Jerald Pinson, Science Writer

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