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In 1947, a small package containing an unknown plant specimen arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium. For 37 years, the thorny stem and leaves sat pressed between pages of a yellowed newspaper, filed in a cabinet among the vast library of Florida plants, until University of Flori
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Science lovers are invited to attend the free Girls Do Science event at the Florida Museum of Natural History on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted in celebration of the United Nations’ declaration of Feb. 11 as International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum will
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Visitors to the Calusa Heritage Trail come for a variety of reasons—some to learn about the archaeology, some for the fresh air, some to see some of the 100+ kinds of birds that come through the site. And, almost everybody notices the diverse array of interesting plants, some familiar, some
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Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy, but the origin of its cat-attracting chemical is a remarkable example of evolutionary innovation. While the compound nepetalactone drives two-thirds of cats batty, likely by mimicking sex pheromones, its real purpose
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