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Florida Museum Science

Fieldwork

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

blue calamintha bee marked with paint

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Scientists discover nest, new northern range of Florida’s rare blue calamintha bee

May 20, 2021

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added…Read More

bee sticking head out of bag

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Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales Ridge

May 7, 2020

The Sunshine State’s iconic wildlife includes the American alligator, the Florida panther, the scrub jay and the manatee. But some…Read More

frog with yellow belly on white background

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In Gabon with a professional frog-catcher

April 16, 2019

University of Florida Ph.D. student Gregory Jongsma has been obsessed with Africa’s wildlife since his childhood. Not the animals you…Read More

large clown knifefish

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Florida Invasive Species: Clown Knifefish

February 28, 2018

The clown knifefish, Chitala ornata, is native to Indochina, but has been found in South Florida starting in the 1990s….Read More

researchers collecting fish

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Rain & Loaches in Thailand

October 16, 2017

Collecting in the field can run the gamut from spending a beautiful day walking along a pristine river to being…Read More

overview of digging activity at fossil site

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News: Saber-Tooth Cat Skull Find in Montbrook

February 6, 2017

A volunteer at our Montbrook dig site unearthed what appears to be a 5-million-year- old saber-tooth cat skull. Volunteer Bill…Read More

man hiking verdant moutain ridge

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Philodoria & Science with Chris Johns

December 21, 2016

Scientist Bio: Chris A. Johns Eventually, Chris Johns hopes to slow down and spend his retirement surfing and hanging out,…Read More

large white ship

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A new age for exploring the uncharted deep sea

December 11, 2015

Imagine looking down on where you live from 20,000 feet above. Now imagine 95 percent of what’s below has never…Read More

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Gainesville, FL 32611

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Jerald Pinson, Science Writer

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