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Technology & Data

Photograph of fern leaf.

Technology & Data

Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants

May 7, 2025

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web…
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Ant walking on moss looking at reflection in water

Life on Earth

Researchers use AI to create a treasure map of undiscovered ant species

August 4, 2022

E. O. Wilson once referred to invertebrates as “the little things that run the world,” without whom “the human species…
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A close up image of a large moth perched at the tip of a twig with prominent, feather-like antennae

Technology & Data

Student’s device enables researchers to easily track elusive insects

February 24, 2022

With some home security software and a little ingenuity, researchers have developed an inexpensive device that will allow them to…
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Joshua tree close up showing flower stalk

Climate Change

Early bloomers: Using citizen-science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees

December 14, 2021

In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight. Joshua trees and closely related…
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Monarch butterlies on branch and in sky

Community Science

Who observes the observers? Scientists conduct large-scale study of iNaturalist users

September 8, 2021

Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records in a new study to find out who most often uses the…
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books of color chips

Cultural Heritage

Human eye beats machine in archaeological color identification test

February 9, 2021

A ruler and scale can tell archaeologists the size and weight of a fragment of pottery – but identifying its…
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green and yellow butterflies

Awards & Honors

Museum team’s data tool wins second place in Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

October 23, 2019

A data citation and tracking tool created by Florida Museum of Natural History researchers has won second place in the…
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Herbarium specimens on a table.

Technology & Data

Digital records of preserved plants and animals change how scientists explore the world

September 12, 2019

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions…
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small shark tooth fragment next to dime for scale

News in Brief

DNA from tooth in Florida man’s foot solves 25-year-old shark bite mystery

July 2, 2019

When Jeff Weakley tweezed open a blister-like bulge on his foot, he was not expecting to find a piece of…
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jaw bones of various animals in boxes

Cultural Heritage

New data platform illuminates history of humans’ environmental impact

May 13, 2019

The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal…
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