A butterfly in hiding takes wing on social media
Thanks to social media and museum collections, a butterfly species was recognized in 2011 after more than 50 years of…
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97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past
Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological…
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UF receives $1.97 million NSF grant to develop paleontology network
With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation…
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Why Science? Bat Research
University of Florida graduate student Kelly Speer talks about her interest in studying mammals and population variations by researching bat…
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Why Science? Taxonomy
Gustav Paulay, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains that taxonomy is the ability to…
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Bat Dispersal in the Bahamas
University of Florida graduate student Kelly Speer discusses her research using DNA differences to learn about bat populations in the…
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St. Augustine: First Colony
Florida Museum of Natural History Distinguished Research Curator Kathleen Deagan discusses research at St. Augustine, FL, where she has worked…
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Amborella: The Phylogeny of Flowering Plants
Pam and Doug Soltis, distinguished professors with the Florida Museum of Natural History, discuss how sequencing the genome of one…
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Crab Research
Gustav Paulay, curator of marine malacology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, talks about larval crab development and how…
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Museum scientists help catalog official North America fish names in new guide
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers have co-authored the latest edition of the universal reference for fish names in North…
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