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animation of four Taíno brothers

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Taíno origin story comes to life in animated video by TED-Ed, Museum archaeologist

November 5, 2019

Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologist William Keegan collaborated with TED-Ed to produce a video dramatization of how the world…
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butterfly holotype

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New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren

September 13, 2019

Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12….
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small shark tooth fragment next to dime for scale

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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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graphic showing plant descending deeper into soil

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Underground movement: The secret lives of geophytes

June 28, 2019

Plants may seem like some of nature’s most passive creatures, but some have a say in how they live and…
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specimen jars in the Herpetology collection

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Why Science? Herpetology

June 9, 2019

Coleman Sheehy, the herpetology collection manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains his early childhood interest in amphibians…
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alligator skull fossil

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Alligator Fossils at Montbrook

June 7, 2019

Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses fossils of alligators and other animals found at…
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three researchers stand at the montbrook dig site

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Why Science? Paleontology

June 5, 2019

Jonathan Bloch, a Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains how an early interest in…
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gloved hands preparing specimen in DNA lab

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Why Science? Plant Evolutionary Genetics

June 4, 2019

University of Florida plant evolutionary geneticist Doug Soltis explains how he became interested in studying biodiversity and the research he…
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plants in the mint family on tables in a green house

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Genetic Mining of the Mints

June 3, 2019

University of Florida plant evolutionary geneticist Doug Soltis explains the DNA/RNA extraction process from mint plants. Analyzing this data allows…
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orange and black butterfly on yellow flower

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Vegetation Management

June 3, 2019

Jaret Daniels, a butterfly researcher with the UF department of entomology and nematology and Florida Museum of Natural History, describes…
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