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Florida Museum Science

Florida Biodiversity

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…Read More

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…Read More

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…Read More

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…Read More

Person holding chanchita

Florida Biodiversity

Chanchita may have the highest cold tolerance of all non-native fish in central Florida

June 29, 2022

When Florida Museum ichthyology collection manager Rob Robins brought home fish samples from central Florida in 2017, he didn’t anticipate…Read More

Museum specimen of Medionidus walkeri

Collections

Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections

August 27, 2021

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical…Read More

fuzzy orange bee in flight

Community Science

Have you seen these big, hairy bees? Scientists tracking two rare species in Florida, Georgia

August 18, 2021

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are asking for help tracking two obscure species of ultra-fuzzy, fast-flying native bees that…Read More

Rio Cauca caecilian in net

Florida Biodiversity

Weird, noodle-shaped amphibians known as caecilians found in South Florida canal

July 28, 2021

Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal,…Read More

blue calamintha bee marked with paint

Fieldwork

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

butterfly on plant

Community Science

Community science callout: Help locate rare butterfly’s host plants in Florida, Georgia

March 24, 2021

Scientists are asking the public to help find and document sundial lupine and wild indigo, host plants of the frosted…Read More

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Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL 32611

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Jerald Pinson, Science Writer

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