Spooky natural history
This Halloween season, we’re celebrating a part of Florida’s natural history that’s often underappreciated: fungi, parasites and wasps. We’ve also…
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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…
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Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical…
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Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change
A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where…
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iDigBio receives $20 million from NSF to sustain U.S. museum digitization efforts
T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide,…
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Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct
Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis of museum specimens. Misidentified by its…
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Top killers of Florida birds: Trauma on land, starvation at sea
An analysis of birds that died at Florida wildlife rehabilitation clinics found songbirds and other land-dwelling species were most often…
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NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute…
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Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the…
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Mission accessible: Florida’s historic Spanish missions go digital
Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched…
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