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Butterflies of Ecuador

April 18, 2013

Keith Willmott, an assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains his research and the importance…
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Gustav Paulay holds a spiny invertebrate specimen in a jar

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Why Science? Biodiversity

April 18, 2013

Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes his fascination with biodiversity. He explains the…
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two researchers scuba diving

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The Moorea Island Biocode Project

April 14, 2013

Gustav Paulay, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains the Moorea Island Biocode Project and…
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Alex Hastings with croc pelvis

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Ancient Crocodile Relative Fossils

April 13, 2013

Alex Hastings, a paleontology graduate student at the Florida Museum of Natural History, talks about his research and the giant…
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Florida Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection

April 11, 2013

Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes what it takes to create and build…
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sea life from dredging

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First BioBlitz at Seahorse Key

March 15, 2013

During the winter holidays every year, hundreds of “snowbirds” travel from the northern U.S. and Canada for the warmth of…
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Endara and Whitten with orchid

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Revising ‘Red Book of Endemic Plants of Ecuador’

November 13, 2012

With an area about the size of Arizona, Ecuador seems small when compared to other South American countries, such as…
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Multiple orchid flowers on black background

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Orchids in the Andes

September 19, 2012

Lorena Endara, a Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant, discusses why she became a biologist and what inspired her…
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Scientists cataloging specimens

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Museum receives $339,000 to digitize invertebrate collections

September 19, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology researchers recently received a National Science Foundation grant to further digitize the department’s…
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A monkey with bronze hair on its head sits in a tree

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Red Colobus Monkey Genetics

September 19, 2012

Julie Allen, an evolutionary biologist in UF’s department of biology, describes her research on the Red Colobus monkey in Uganda,…
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