Earliest use of Mexican turkeys by ancient Maya
As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an…
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Researchers name new cusk-eels useful for understanding environment
A study by University of Florida and University of Kansas researchers describing eight new cusk-eel species provides data for better…
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Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets baseline for future research
Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity…
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State record: 87 eggs in largest python from Everglades
Researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state…
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New ancient camels from Panama Canal excavation named
When it comes to camels, it’s difficult not to think of the Old World depicted through Arabian Nights – Bedouin…
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New endemic species discovered in disturbed habitats of Hawaii
On the Hawaiian Islands, where isolated, vulnerable pieces of land are surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean, habitat destruction…
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Earliest horses show past global warming affected mammal body size
These days, climate change is a hot topic. What will happen as temperatures rise more rapidly than humans have documented…
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Early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during…
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Coastal forests retreat as sea levels rise
That sea levels are rising is hardly new news–they have been doing so since the end of the last major…
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Science fair winner publishes new study on butterfly foraging behavior
University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life’s work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage…
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