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Florida Museum Science

Life on Earth

Museum specimen of Medionidus walkeri

Life on Earth

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

raccoon

Climate Change

Cities are making mammals bigger

August 16, 2021

A new study shows urbanization is causing many mammal species to grow bigger, possibly because of readily available food in…Read More

Rio Cauca caecilian in net

Life on Earth

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

Metridium farcimen

Life on Earth

Giant sea anemone eats ants

June 23, 2021

Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat…Read More

mammal skulls

Collections

iDigBio receives $20 million from NSF to sustain U.S. museum digitization efforts

June 22, 2021

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide,…Read More

close-up of megalodon tooth

Education & Outreach

School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate

June 7, 2021

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously…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

Philodoria hibiscella moth

Life on Earth

These moths are one of Hawaii’s oldest animal groups. Can they survive the next century?

March 19, 2021

Akito Kawahara was snapping pictures at a scenic outlook in Hawaii when he spotted the moth equivalent of a dodo….Read More

five fossil bones

Life on Earth

Extinct Caribbean bird’s closest relatives hail from Africa, South Pacific

March 16, 2021

In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail…Read More

white shark

Life on Earth

Shark attack numbers remained ‘extremely low’ in 2020, but fatalities spiked

January 25, 2021

Shark attacks decreased for the third consecutive year, falling to 57 unprovoked bites worldwide in 2020, compared with 64 bites…Read More

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