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Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After wreaking havoc in Florida’s ecosystems, the exotic lizard was classified as an invasive species. But a recent discovery from the Florida Museum of Natural History reveals the r
Instead of measuring these images by hand, Stanley used a technique developed by

The Sunshine State’s iconic wildlife includes the American alligator, the Florida panther, the scrub jay and the manatee. But some species unique to Florida are less familiar, like the ultra-rare blue calamintha bee. First described in 2011, scientists weren’t sure the bee still existed. The spec
at the Archbold Biological Station near Lake Placid since March, getting a first-hand

It was a chilly February day. A handful of Florida teachers gathered on the edge of a dirt pit in rural Levy County. Wind whipped across the open landscape, toying with scarves and making the little flags scattered around the pit dance on their long stems. Florida’s weak winter sunlight was sharp in
These hand-chosen teachers were here to dig for fossils as part of a professional

A hallmark of complex human societies is the existence of surplus foods. Surplus foods enable people, past and present, to spend time on things other than producing food. Mullet, especially the striped mullet (Mugil cephalus), because of their predictable, mass-schooling behavior and preser
Since about 1990, many volunteers hand-collected and cleaned all animal bones, including

More than 250 years ago, enslaved Africans risked their lives to escape English plantations in Carolina and find freedom among the Spanish living at St. Augustine. Battling slave catchers and dangerous swamps, they helped establish the first American underground railroad more than a century
ceramics, and glass bottles; food items such as burned seeds and bone, and even a hand-made

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Florida department of geological sciences will teach visitors about the Earth beneath their feet at the annual ‘Can You Dig It?’ program on March 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The free event encourages guests to unearth
Communications Media Effects and Technology Lab will give guests an opportunity to try their hand

Synopsis of Policies The Herbarium of the University of Florida (FLAS) is an administrative unit in the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences provides partial financial support for the daily operation of the herbarium
Specimen storage and fumigation: All incoming dry plant materials, whether shipped, hand-carried

A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch a new initiative to “teleport� specimens from museum shelves to the internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public. The oVert project, short
Specimens must be hand-selected, shipped, tracked, scanned, uploaded to MorphoSource

After a comprehensive study of plants across the United States, researchers have arrived at the unexpected conclusion that plants able to fix atmospheric nitrogen are most diverse in arid regions of the country. This finding runs counter to the prevailing assumption that nitrogen-fixers should be co
Bacteria, on the other hand, have mastered the trick of fixing atmospheric nitrogen

Riley Gott began his doctoral studies in August 2022 studying the taxonomy and systematics of the primarily Neotropical butterfly genera Dalla, Ladda, and Piruna (family Hesperiidae), under a joint graduate assistantship from the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Entomology and
Riley prefers hand-drawing illustrations to make significant details more visible