Filling the Andean butterfly gap, one species at a time
It’s a mammoth job, setting out to document all the butterflies of South America’s tropical Andean cordillera — a 3,000-mile…
Read More
UF study: Use nest-box control for South Florida nuisance iguanas
Health and safety risks from non-native iguanas in south Florida have prompted a University of Florida researcher and his team…
Read More
Racing to survey coral reefs
Around the globe,scientists are ringing alarm bells about coral bleaching—when corals expel their symbiotic, food-producing algae due to heat stress,…
Read More
Paleontologist discovers most primitive primate skeleton
The roots of the primate family tree are now more clearly defined in the fossil record, and about 10 million…
Read More
New Frogmouth bird genus found in South Pacific Solomon Islands
Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new…
Read More
Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues
New research indicating early humans acquired public lice from gorillas about 3.3 million years ago sheds new light on when…
Read More
Plants on the move
Florida Museum of Natural History Paleobotany Curator Steve Manchester has concluded a three-year National Science Foundation project comparing 50-million-year old…
Read More
Early Columbus settlement was desperate to find metals
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from…
Read More
Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville
Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of…
Read More
‘Terror bird’ arrived in North America before land bridge
Evidence from a study led by the Florida Museum of Natural History confirms that the carnivorous, seven-foot-tall “terror bird” likely…
Read More