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Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine’s fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of slave raiders descending from the Carolinas. You pack in haste. You leave m
communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway Cultural Heritage Oldest DNA

What is a herbarium? A herbarium (Latin: hortus siccus) is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study, usually in the form of dried and pressed plants mounted on paper. The dried and mounted plant samples are generally referred to as herbarium specimens. Other materials in the herb
algae, fungi, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, silica-stored materials, DNA

This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on the KAUST Red Sea cruise. You can read more from him at www.naturenoah.com. “Thousands of miles from home, hundreds of miles from our institution, and thirty miles from any solid lan
for the specimens, that is – science is too fun to take breaks), photography, DNA

NON-VENOMOUS  Other common names Eastern Rat Snake, Rat Snake, Chicken Snake, Yellow Ratsnake, Everglades Ratsnake Basic description Most adult Eastern Ratsnakes are about 42-72 inches (106-183 cm) in total length. This species is variable in coloration, but juveniles are gray with dark blotches
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the North American ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta)

The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. Victor Perez, a geological scie
a technique known as anchored hybrid enrichment, he was able to extract as much DNA

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making Evolution Vast DNA

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
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Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
Researchers are freezing tissue samples from many of the collected specimens for future DNA

A new book co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher examines the rich and distinct histories of the Caribbean islands before the arrival of Europeans and presents findings from the first excavation of a Carib culture site. In “The Caribbean before Columbus,� Florida Museum of Natural History Ca
Heritage Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise Cultural Heritage Oldest DNA

Standing in the Florida Museum’s backyard, eyes closed, face turned to the sunlight, you can hear a hushed murmur of thousands of insects dancing across the sea of wildflowers. This is not a manicured garden with neat beds of easily recognized plants from a big box store. Our Daniels Lab team has be
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