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ocellated turkey

Collections

How we stuff a turkey at the Florida Museum

November 25, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History added its own stuffed turkey to the estimated 45 million birds about to be…
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Bruce MacFadden with book

Education Research

How can scientists engage the public? New book offers best practices

November 20, 2019

Scientists are increasingly breaking away from the lab or leaving their computer screens to talk to the public about their…
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three piles, one of bones, one of shells, one of charred plant remains

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Environmental archaeology receives NSF grant to curate specimens before data go ‘dark’

November 6, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology Program received a nearly $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to curate some…
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animation of four Taíno brothers

News in Brief

Taíno origin story comes to life in animated video by TED-Ed, Museum archaeologist

November 5, 2019

Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologist William Keegan collaborated with TED-Ed to produce a video dramatization of how the world…
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Monarch butterflies on flowering plant

Features

A kaleidoscope of monarchs: Marveling at one of nature’s greatest journeys

October 29, 2019

Our horses breathed deep but kept a steady pace as we ascended to 10,000 feet above sea level, scanning the…
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pile of large variety of fossil shark teeth showing a variety of shapes and colors

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Are shark teeth fossils true fossils?

October 16, 2019

We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum’s vertebrate…
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butterfly holotype

News in Brief

New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren

September 13, 2019

Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12….
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small bones

Collections

Florida Museum receives NSF grant to lead conservation paleobiology research network

August 7, 2019

The National Science Foundation awarded the Florida Museum of Natural History a $500,000 grant to develop a research coordination network…
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child holding hoop glider

Features

Florida Museum introduces new science outreach programs for Gainesville children

August 6, 2019

When the Gainesville Cultural Arts Coalition approached Florida Museum of Natural History school outreach coordinator Alberto Lopez in January to…
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A yellow moth with brown patterning on its wings

Collections

25,000 moths from one Florida backyard show how insects change with the seasons

July 26, 2019

It may seem as though the same brown moths circle your porch light each night. But a two-year survey of…
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