Bull sharks and rays tracked in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
Worldwide, there are only 75 known instances of unprovoked bull shark attacks and 23 human fatalities on record in the…
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Florida Museum now houses its own deep freeze DNA library
Time is slowing down—way down—for a select collection of DNA specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History. They are…
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Butterfly conservation initiative marks first anniversary
Just as a butterfly leaves the chrysalis to spread its wings, in May 2007 the Butterfly Conservation Initiative decided to…
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Phantom fossils: ancient impressions of marine organisms
Tourists who comb Florida’s sandy beaches for exotic shells are probably unaware that they’re also picking through bits of geologic…
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Fossils from Bahamian Blue Hole may give clues to early life
Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida’s coast and left…
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Hunting fossil hummingbirds in Florida
Birders in Florida may get a thrill when they spy a ruby-throated hummingbird flitting through their backyard — after all,…
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New butterfly species naming rights auctioned for $40,800
Surprisingly, McGuire Center Collections Manager George Austin came across the species while curating butterflies in the Florida Museum, which houses…
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Florida panther conservation
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts….
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Fossils offer clues to North Florida’s past
In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to…
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Racing to survey coral reefs
Around the globe,scientists are ringing alarm bells about coral bleaching—when corals expel their symbiotic, food-producing algae due to heat stress,…
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