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In a new book, a father and daughter scientist duo explore the 100-million-year history of butterflies. From their inauspicious origin as odd, day-flying moths to their modern-day diversity and distribution, Andrei and Alexandra Sourakov provide salient butterfly facts in a short, easy-to-read forma
about some aspect of their behavior, the answer to your questions will be right at hand
At the middle of the seventeenth century, St. Augustine’s population was only between about 500 and 600 people. By the end of that century, it had risen to more than 1,400, and by the time the Spaniards evacuated St. Augustine in 1763 there were more than 3,000 residents. This steady growth came ab
Artifacts This large, hand-made jar was found at the homesite of Gerónimo de Hita
About 300 people lived in the town site that was established to the south of the present-day St. Augustine plaza in 1572. Most of the residents were soldiers and their dependents. The colony was not profitable for Spain, but St. Augustine’s economy was subsidized by the crown because of the town’s
Hand-wrought iron nails and spikes are some of the rare physical traces of St.
Scientists studying marine animals at the Florida Museum of Natural History seem to be living the high life, heading to the coast for fishing trips in the name of research. But when you take away the refreshments, the relaxation most people associate with going fishing and consider they’re lo
“These are 13- to 15-foot animals and they have to be brought in by hand.
The Florida Museum’s Paleobotany Collection includes about 250,000 specimens, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene.* It is international in scope, with collections from more than 50 countries. The strengths are Cretaceous to Eocene of the U.S. western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of s
slide preparations of fossil woods, leaf cuticles and pollen/spores, as well as hand
Take a walk in the park! Our popular Museum in the Parks program was reimagined to work in collaboration with our local libraries to empower families with exploration kits and digital science resources. Go to your local Alachua County Library District location to check out an Exploration Backpack fu
Binoculars Plant Press Butterfly Net Bug Enclosure Bug lens case Hand Lens
With more than 2.4 million cataloged specimens of about 9,000 species, the Florida Museum Ichthyology Collection is one of the largest in the world.* Though worldwide in scope, the collections contain specimens from Florida, the Southeast U.S., South America and Southeast Asia, and a variety from th
specimens to UF. 1990 Around this time, digitization efforts to enter data from hand-written
Shopping School supply shopping can get expensive. Parents can expect to spend hundreds of dollars per child on back-to-school supplies, yet only 22% of them plan to reuse school supplies for the following year. Let’s look at some alternatives for this year’s back-to-school preparations that ar
You can even try your hand at mending any rips or holes in the fabric with embroideryâ
The openVertebrate project, oVert for short, is a new initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public. Over the next four years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collect
History image by Ed Stanley Even delicate structures, such as the muscles in the hand