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Features

Five invasive plants that might be lurking in your garden

February 25, 2020

This is National Invasive Species Invasive Awareness Week, a good opportunity for Floridians to familiarize themselves with several widespread invasive…Read More

16th century map of Spanish Florida and Cuba

Collections

Mission accessible: Florida’s historic Spanish missions go digital

December 20, 2019

Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched…Read More

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News in Brief

Wrens aplenty and gulls galore: Highlights from the 2019 Gainesville Christmas Bird Count

December 18, 2019

The 62nd John Hintermister Gainesville Christmas Bird Count saw a profusion of great blue herons, flycatchers and whistling ducks –…Read More

lateral view of fish

News in Brief

‘Netherworldly’ freshwater fish named for Thai conservation visionary

December 16, 2019

At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one…Read More

ocellated turkey

Collections

How we stuff a turkey at the Florida Museum

November 25, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History added its own stuffed turkey to the estimated 45 million birds about to be…Read More

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Education Research

How can scientists engage the public? New book offers best practices

November 20, 2019

Scientists are increasingly breaking away from the lab or leaving their computer screens to talk to the public about their…Read More

three piles, one of bones, one of shells, one of charred plant remains

Collections

Environmental archaeology receives NSF grant to curate specimens before data go ‘dark’

November 6, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology Program received a nearly $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to curate some…Read More

animation of four Taíno brothers

News in Brief

Taíno origin story comes to life in animated video by TED-Ed, Museum archaeologist

November 5, 2019

Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologist William Keegan collaborated with TED-Ed to produce a video dramatization of how the world…Read More

Monarch butterflies on flowering plant

Features

A kaleidoscope of monarchs: Marveling at one of nature’s greatest journeys

October 29, 2019

Our horses breathed deep but kept a steady pace as we ascended to 10,000 feet above sea level, scanning the…Read More

pile of large variety of fossil shark teeth showing a variety of shapes and colors

Collections

Are shark teeth fossils true fossils?

October 16, 2019

We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum’s vertebrate…Read More

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