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A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
work behind the scenes, and museum visitors only learn of their discoveries second-hand

In a pair of complementary studies, researchers take a close look at Luna moth (Actias luna) tails through the eyes of birds and female moths to test their role in predation and sexual selection. Scientists have known for about a decade that Luna moths — and other related silkmoths — use their long,
2023 The long, trailing tails of Luna moths function as an evolutionary slight of hand

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
Photo by Kristen Grace Archaeologists study first-hand accounts of the Spanish conquest

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
donate lifetimes’ worth of butterflies and moths As a 4-year-old, butterfly net in hand

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
audible clicking sound, but we don’t know how they do it; and I can count on my hand

Numerous new arthropods show up in Florida every year with several of them becoming invasive pests that potentially threaten food crops, landscapes, and native habitats. For a new pest to thrive and establish, it needs suitable host(s) and environmental conditions. When these conditions are met, th
The beetle larvae, on the other hand, are much more noticeable but are often mistaken

The Aucilla River Prehistory Project was an archaeological and paleontological project excavating a particularly rich series of deposits that yielded ancient megafaunal remains in association with Paleoindian artifacts. The Aucilla River flows into the Big Bend area of northwestern Florida. The riv
Larger artifacts and bones are hand collected by the divers.

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
GatorCorps members and UF Gulf Scholar students visited the center to lend a helping hand

Quick Facts Common Name: none Enhydritherium terraenovae is a large, extinct otter capable of living in both freshwater and coastal marine habitats. A nearly complete skeleton is on permanent public display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. It was collected at the Moss Acres Racetrack
The combined evidence of a lack of hindlimb swimming specialization, hand proportions

The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love of freshwater mussels. Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes. But bivalves? Not so much. Yet Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery could not sift through a single bag of material fr
attention to patterns she and Emery had noticed previously, with species names in hand