After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched…

In 1977, Bruce MacFadden accepted a curatorial position with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Since...

The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus…

There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America,…

María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…

Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the…

Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years…

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…