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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Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections
Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of…
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Record number of endangered sawfish tagged
Scientists studying marine animals at the Florida Museum of Natural History seem to be living the high life, heading to…
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Catching Bats in the Caribbean
Doctoral biology student Angelo Soto-Centeno explains his research into how climate change has affected the diversity of bat populations across…
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Researchers discover ‘green’ pesticide effective against citrus pests
Florida Museum researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars…
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Florida’s Gulf Coast Marine Biodiversity
Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology curator Gustav Paulay discusses his mission to fully document the marine biodiversity of…
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