Celebrate ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ with hands-on activities and experiments during this FREE program open to everyone. In 2015, the United Nations selected Feb. 11 as ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ in order to encourage more female participation in science. Joi
Soltis Lab– Dive into DNA extraction with strawberries.
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advance ethical open science Environmental Archaeology new study on Colonial horse DNA
What is Environmental Archaeology? Environmental archaeology is the interdisciplinary study of past human interactions with the natural world – a world that encompasses plants, animals, and landscapes. We seek to reconstruct ancient environments associated with archaeological sites and the use of p
of speciality, often rely on biomolecular sciences for their research, studying DNA
Hickory horned devils look fierce, but they’re just the caterpillar stage of a beautiful moth. A few weeks ago, a Florida Museum visitor brought this one to us because she found it in her backyard and wasn’t sure what to do with it. After one of our scientists checked it out, and staff took a few
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA
The Florida Museum is saddened to announce the sudden death of botanist Mark Whitten. Whitten was well known for his love of living things, his collegial spirit and gentle, kind manner. He began his work at the University of Florida in 1981 as a graduate student of Norris Williams, curator eme
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics where he was developing new methods of DNA
How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most cases, the process of speciation occurs when individuals from a single population become geographically isolated. If they remain separate long enough, they lose the ability to interbreed.
Unlike genomes, which contain the entirety of an organism’s DNA, transcriptomes
Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, and if that seems like an odd pairing, there’s a reason why. Today, there
all went wrong by Jerald Pinson • May 22, 2025 Scientists analyzed ancient DNA
Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen collected in 1949. It was later rediscovered in the wild in the 1980s, though due to its limited numbers, the future of this spiny shrub is uncertain. Summary Florida Jujube (Pseudoziziphus
Finally, it is interesting that recent studies of DNA-sequence variation have shown
Butterflies have been objects of scientific research for hundreds of years, but information about the popular insects is scattered across the world in books, research papers and museum collections. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History aim to gather everything known about butter
affecting agriculture, cancer, biodiversity and more Cultural Heritage Oldest DNA
They seem similar at first glance, but it turns out the indigo snakes found on Florida’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts are not two of a kind. Ten years of research by Florida Museum of Natural History scientists led to new information about the origins of Florida’s largest native snake species, wh
Study researchers were able to discern the two lineages by studying their DNA, said
