Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands
In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…
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Students return to the field with the aid of museum travel awards
Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…
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Florida volunteers see record numbers of endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly
F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service…
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Northeast Florida ‘Lights Out’ project aims to reduce bird collision deaths
Each fall, millions of migratory birds fly over Florida under the cover of night, hightailing it south for the winter….
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Who observes the observers? Scientists conduct large-scale study of iNaturalist users
Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records in a new study to find out who most often uses the…
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Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical…
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Have you seen these big, hairy bees? Scientists tracking two rare species in Florida, Georgia
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are asking for help tracking two obscure species of ultra-fuzzy, fast-flying native bees that…
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Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change
A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where…
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iDigBio receives $20 million from NSF to sustain U.S. museum digitization efforts
T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide,…
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School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously…
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