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More than 300 years ago, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto set out from Spanish Florida on an expedition to explore North America. Archaeologists have long debated the exact path he took and what occurred during his journey along the ‘De Soto Trail,’ but at least one point is undisputed: de
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While a clear night sky might seem quiet and peaceful to us, empty of everything but stars, this nocturnal world is filled with a high-pitched cacophony of sound just beyond our ability to hear. Bats pierce the shadows with ultrasonic pulses that enable them to construct an auditory map of their sur
Initiatives Florida wildflowers and pollinators get a boost with two grants Evolution DNA

When lice attack, it’s hard to call it a blessing. People have been tormented by the blood-sucking parasites for thousands of years, awaiting the latest technology to annihilate them. But some researchers are counting their lice and shipping them to genetics laboratories, where they are used to unl
His latest study used DNA sequencing to calculate when clothing lice first began

Globally acclaimed artist and beloved Florida Museum of Natural History collaborator Naziha Mestaoui passed away on April 29. She was 44 years old. Mestaoui’s interactive, grand-scale outdoor projections highlighted the connections between all living things, and the Paris-based artist was per
Her projections also included a score generated by translating DNA sequences into

Welcome to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual report for fiscal year 2023. It’s been an exciting year with many changes for both the University of Florida and the museum!
research took place on everything from the origin of butterflies to the oldest DNA

Elizabeth “Liz� Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than a decade after the school began accepting women. As a master’s student with an incurable curiosity for “anything that cracked or crawled,� Wing was interested in animal anatomy a
samples from Guatemala so that ichthyologist John Pfeiffer could analyze the mussels’ DNA

The frosted elfin is a small brown butterfly about the size of a nickel. Despite its unremarkable appearance, this rare butterfly has the notable achievement of contributing to its own conservation by helping make a beer. Brewers from First Magnitude Brewing Co. and scientists from the Florida Mu
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

To pair with the rest of our educational content in each Earth to Florida newsletter, we bring you monthly updates on statewide environmental news. Read on below to see what we found over the past month: 10 Florida Stories to Watch A recent UF study found that a popular herbicide, glyphosate
While phosphorus is essential for life and vital to DNA, agriculture, and food production

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
Now that we can study DNA, we’re realizing they often look alike because they live

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently welcomed Arthur Porto as its first curator of artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity. Prior to joining the museum, Porto was an assistant professor of biology at Louisiana State University where he used machine learning and image-b
ongoing revolution in genomics — the study of an organism’s full complement of DNA