The frosted elfin butterfly returns home to North Florida
The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn’t headed to the…
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Sawfish tagged in Cedar Key for first time in decades
In 2003, smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) had the unenviable distinction of being the first native marine fish listed under the…
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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…
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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…
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Florida volunteers see record numbers of endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly
F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service…
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Scientists discover nest, new northern range of Florida’s rare blue calamintha bee
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added…
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Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales Ridge
The Sunshine State’s iconic wildlife includes the American alligator, the Florida panther, the scrub jay and the manatee. But some…
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Florida scientists tag deep-sea shark from submersible
Florida scientists have tagged a deep-sea shark from a submersible, a historic first that took three expeditions, more than 2,000…
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Museum volunteers discover new species of extinct heron at North Florida fossil site
When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn’t made by…
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In Gabon with a professional frog-catcher
University of Florida Ph.D. student Gregory Jongsma has been obsessed with Africa’s wildlife since his childhood. Not the animals you…
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