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Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
“But that’s what the DNA and the anatomy tell us.

The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn’t headed to the park’s famous recreation spots. It was there for conservation, and the scientists in the lead were towing the precious cargo: tiny green caterpillars. Entering a trail road typica
After a quick, nonharmful sample is taken, a DNA analysis can reveal the identity

Last week, Glaucia Del-Rio officially stepped into her role as curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. She replaces retired curator David Steadman, who held the position between 1995 and 2021. Del-Rio was raised in São Paulo, Brazil, a sprawling urban complex with high-ri
With no obvious explanation for their behavior, Del-Rio began looking for clues in DNA

Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years without being observed by scientists. It belongs to a diverse genus from the Caribbean that also includes the much more common coquí frog (Eleutherodactylus coquí), a cult
Photo by chziemke, CC-BY-NC 4.0 DNA analysis led scientists to believe that Caribbean

Taming a wild plant may not sound too ominous, unless you are a tiny moth and the plant is 8 feet tall and poisonous. Lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov with the Florida Museum of Natural History has been studying ornate bella moths, Utetheisa ornatrix, since 2010. His March 2015 study appearing in th
said. “They affect their livers and their alkaloids even have been found to have DNA

 For nearly a decade, I’ve been teaching kids the basics of photography, venturing outdoors with them and learning together how to explore nature through a camera lens. I never imagined that one day I’d be teaching nature photography to children remotely. This is how I found myself talking to
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Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the classic cartoon may help children connect with nature, it popularizes the misconception that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent European settlemen
book explores the history of cattle in the Americas Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA

Collections Coordinator McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 352-273-2013, Email: asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu Additional appointments: Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Entomology and Nematology Edu
Hebert, 2009. DNA barcoding Central Asian butterflies: Increasing geographical dimension

Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa, which they recommend be designated as endangered. The plant, which grows as a small bush sheathed in an imposing layer of thorns, was found during a survey to c
courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden To confirm the identification, he extracted DNA

Places like the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles echo famous prehistoric discoveries. But at the bottom of a sinkhole near the small Florida town of Bell in Gilchrist County lies the richest Early Miocene vertebrate fossil locality in the world, known as Thomas
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