Why Science? Monarch Population
Jaret Daniels, a researcher in entomology and nematology for the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes why he enjoys working…
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New Earth systems institute to communicate environmental issues to Floridians
The University of Florida has launched the Thompson Earth Systems Institute, an outreach-focused center that aims to advance public understanding…
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Butterfly expert Thomas Emmel has died
The Florida Museum is shocked and saddened by the passing of Thomas Emmel, our colleague and friend, who died over…
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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came…
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NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a $500,000 collections grant from the National Science Foundation to improve online…
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New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the highlands of Mexico. Nearly 60 years later,…
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New butterfly species named for Field Museum’s Emily Graslie
As the Field Museum’s chief curiosity correspondent, Emily Graslie has plunged elbow-deep into wolf guts, dug up 52-million-year-old fish fossils…
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Luna moth caterpillars vs. brown anoles
Florida Museum researcher Andrei Sourakov recently published a paper in the Journal of Natural History on his observations of the…
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Rain & Loaches in Thailand
Collecting in the field can run the gamut from spending a beautiful day walking along a pristine river to being…
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Calling aspiring fossil hunters: Levy County excavation opens to volunteers Oct. 5
Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil…
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