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...
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million specimen ...
The mass extinction that obliterated three-fourths of life on Earth, including non-avian dinosaurs, set the stage for the swift rise of frogs, a new study shows.
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean.
By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Flori...
University of Florida researchers have found rat lungworm, a parasitic nematode that can cause meningitis in humans and animals, in five Florida counties.
Ra...
Juvenile hellbenders have a different diet than adults, a finding that could help improve conservation efforts of the giant aquatic salamanders. A study of diet samples from young hellbenders, taken non-lethally, showed they mostly eat mayfly and cad...
The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck...
When thinking of mimicry, most people picture two things that look identical, with little difference in pattern or color.
In nature, the mimicking of one bri...
Florida Museum of Natural History Director Douglas Jones has been elected chair of the board for the American Alliance of Museums. His two-year term began at the conclusion of the organization’s 2016 annual meeting last week in Washington, D.C.
In...
While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history.
Whitten, a botanist in the Florida M...
