The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest rodent diversity in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for…

Maria Vallejo-Pareja, a graduate student at the University of Florida, recently received the Estes Memorial Grant from the Society of…

Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean…

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously…

The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin…

The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for…

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

The Florida Museum of Natural History is saddened to announce the death of S. David Webb, former distinguished research curator…

Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones…