The Department of Natural History had an outstanding year in 2015-2016 with 27 faculty overseeing about $65M in total external grant support for research and collection activities, including 59 new grants this fiscal year totaling $8.3M! This per-capita funding rate is extremely high, even for a res
Fish Collections: a community-based model to georeferencing
From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the Greek Islands, Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Nico Cellinese has searched for the answers to how evolution works. But during fieldwork in the Mediterranean Basin—a biodiversity hotspot—she found more questions than answers. “There are so many
Campanulaceae, also known as the bellflower family—a model
Free Admission Children can explore, observe, study, pretend and play at the Florida Museum’s Beverly and Jon Thompson Discovery Zone permanent exhibition. The exhibit includes educational materials as diverse as the natural world, allowing children and their caregivers to engage in science-oriente
Interactives A modern boat model for navigation allows
With just a few clicks of a mouse, you can purchase your very own redtail garra, a type of fish that feeds on algae. Information about the fish’s biology, however, is much less easily obtained. That’s because redtail garra, although popular in the aquarium trade since at least the early 2000s, has u
The 3D photogrammetry model is of the holotype specimen
Department of Natural History Research Seminar Series Spring 2024 January 16, 3p.m.: McGuire Center “Expanding Horizons in Lepidoptera Research” Speaker: Yash Sondhi Institution: University of Florida; Florida International University Title: Visual gene evolution and light entrapment in butter
Museum für Naturkunde Title: Beyond Müller mimicry model
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As such, they are an ideal model for investigating
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His research efforts include groupers as a model for
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southeastern Peru using butterflies and moths as a model
The saying “Birds of a feather flock together” is being given new meaning by a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society b. Flocking birds often travel in groups made up of a single species, in which individuals are nearly indistinguishable from one another, as noted by
with a really dominant, abundant species, there’s a model
Free Admission Children can explore, observe, study, pretend and play at the Florida Museum’s Beverly and Jon Thompson Discovery Zone permanent exhibition. The exhibit includes educational materials as diverse as the natural world, allowing children and their caregivers to engage in science-oriente
Interactives A modern boat model for navigation allows
