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Florida Biodiversity

Photograph of seagrass meadow. Half of the photo is underwater and half is above. The sun is near the center of the image and casts a bright sheen on the sky and water.

Florida Biodiversity

Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida’s largest remaining seagrass bed

May 15, 2025

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine…
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Four people stand around a table on which several fossils are arranged.

Florida Biodiversity

Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past

February 12, 2025

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region…
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Butterfly perching on leaf

Florida Biodiversity

Decades-long study shows this endangered butterfly benefits from hurricanes

February 6, 2025

Sometimes, nature’s surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population…
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Two people inspect plants while standing in a field next to a power line.

Florida Biodiversity

Maintaining an essential habitat: What’s good for pollinators is good for utility companies too

September 24, 2024

Electric power companies dedicate significant resources to clearing overgrown plants and debris from the area surrounding power lines. These areas…
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A single strait stem with leaves and purple flowers set against a black background

Florida Biodiversity

These plants evolved in Florida millions of years ago. They may be gone in decades.

April 2, 2024

Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species…
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Mosaic of butterfly illustrations superimposed on a map of an urban area.

Florida Biodiversity

Moths big and small are vanishing from southern U.S. cities

March 26, 2024

Insects of all stripes are in the midst of a vanishing act, a catastrophic sleight-of-hand occurring so rapidly that scientists…
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elongated fish with short fins down the top and bottom length of its body and a small tail fin with a mark that mimics its round red eye

Florida Biodiversity

Non-native snakehead fish spotted for the first time along Florida’s Gulf Coast

January 23, 2023

A population of non-native aggressive, air-breathing fish known as the goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata) was documented for the first time…
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Pink mint flowers

Climate Change

Florida mints radiated as peninsula sank and resurfaced during ice ages

December 8, 2022

During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew…
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Two sand dollars and a heart urchin on a black background

Climate Change

Sea urchins keep on trucking while other marine life languishes in the Florida Keys

November 7, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the…
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interlocked snake and centipede specimen set on a orange and red leaf

Florida Biodiversity

North America’s rarest snake found biting off more than it could chew

September 7, 2022

North America’s rarest snake, Tantilla oolitica (rim rock crowned snake), was recently spotted in a park in the Florida Keys…
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