Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near…Read More
Notes From Nature celebrates 10 years of community science
There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of…Read More
Endowment brings influx of expertise to the McGuire Center
Early in 2022, the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity launched its first travel award program for visiting researchers. A…Read More
Ennead Architects selected for Powell Hall building expansion
Ennead Architects, a New York City-based firm that specializes in transformative design for public institutions, has been selected to lead…Read More
The Florida Museum of Natural History opens state-of-the-art collections building
The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding this month with the opening of a state-of-the-art special collections building on…Read More
Five Facts: Bees in Florida
While we often think of bees as fuzzy, black and yellow-striped buzzy insects that live in hives like the honey…Read More
Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise
My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once…Read More
Audubon Christmas Bird Count concludes in North Florida with familiar faces, first-timers and shifting migrations
The annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count concluded last week with volunteers tallying bird sightings in 28 countries throughout North, Central…Read More
Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands
In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…Read More
Students return to the field with the aid of museum travel awards
Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…Read More