A new age for exploring the uncharted deep sea
Imagine looking down on where you live from 20,000 feet above. Now imagine 95 percent of what’s below has never…
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Thomas Farm: a prehistoric treasure
Places like the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles echo famous prehistoric…
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Invasive species
Kenneth Krysko, a herpetologist (reptile researcher) at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the problem of the state’s invasive…
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Why Science? Ichthyology
Rob Robins, a senior biologist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Division, explains his background and what led…
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Anatomy of a burmese python
As Becky Reichart pressed against one of the sleek, bleached, white rib bones of the fully rearticulated 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python,…
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Introducing K-12 teachers to our Panama fieldwork
Over the past 4 million years, North American fauna migrated to South America via the Isthmus of Panama. Florida Museum…
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iDigBio effort awarded $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections
The National Science Foundation has awarded six grants totaling about $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections, a nationwide effort coordinated…
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Hawkmoth research collaboration
Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Akito Kawahara and Boise State University researcher Jesse Barber explain their new collaborative study…
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9,700 acres tell stories of Florida’s past
It was home to Native Americans as early as 12,000 B.C., then settlers during the Civil War. Its pine trees…
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Bird calls on demand
While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected…
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