First BioBlitz at Seahorse Key
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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Revising ‘Red Book of Endemic Plants of Ecuador’
With an area about the size of Arizona, Ecuador seems small when compared to other South American countries, such as…
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Orchids in the Andes
Lorena Endara, a Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant, discusses why she became a biologist and what inspired her…
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Museum receives $339,000 to digitize invertebrate collections
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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Red Colobus Monkey Genetics
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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Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets baseline for future research
Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity…
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Museum receives $455,000 grant to curate, digitize vertebrate fossils
A new National Science Foundation grant allows scientists to prepare vertebrate paleontology specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Museum researchers receive $53,000 to digitize ancient Mayan collection
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers recently received $53,000 to enhance the museum’s online database of Mayan artifacts. The two-year…
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Sea turtle, herpetology collection photos
A sea turtle specimen from our Herpetology Collection. © Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Kristen Grace Also
Why Science? Lepidopterology
Akito Kawahara, an assistant professor and curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History, explains why he became…
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