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The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2017 Austin Award and Bullen Award, given for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. Greg Stull received the Austin Award for his work on molecular botany and
phylogenetics and curator, and Steve Manchester, curator of paleobotany, also led

Passenger Pigeons were one of the most abundant birds in the world, with total numbers estimated at 3-5 billion. Hunting and loss of their forest breeding sites caused sharp population declines by the late 19th century. The last surviving pigeon died in captivity in 1914. Summary Passenger Pigeo
What that railroad connection did – there were two things – one was, it led to massive

Santa Fe River 1 [Blancan] University of Florida Fossil Vertebrate Localities CO003B, CO037B, and CO038B Location Santa Fe 1 is a 1000-yard-long (0.9 km) stretch of the Santa Fe River on the Columbia-Gilchrist county boundary, downstream of the town of High Springs and upstream of the State Highw
the Santa Fe River during the early to middle 1960s by scuba-diving teams first led

On February 9th, 1981, Arthur C. Allyn, Jr. signed an agreement transferring the assets and collections of the Allyn Museum to the University of Florida Foundation to ultimately be housed in a new wing of what was then called the Florida State Museum. The Allyn Museum, located in Sarasota, Florida,
and Jacqueline Miller, began long and rewarding careers as Allyn’s curators which led

The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History has received a Champions for Change award in recognition for their butterfly conservation work. The annual award is given by the University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability and the Healthy Gators Coalition to UF community members who make
Led by Jaret Daniels, a curator at the museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera

About 55 million years ago, a warming event that swept the globe had a profound effect on mammals. A Florida Museum of Natural History study in the December 2010 print edition of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution describes a new species of carnivorous mammal that shrank to about half the size of
During a fossil-collecting expedition in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin in 2006, a team led

Visitors to the Calusa Heritage Trail at the Randell Research Center often ask how Calusa people used plants, and every year there is more interest in landscaping with plants native to South Florida. The native-plant garden that Martha (Marty) Kendall first planted along the path leading fr
Her interest in the Calusa and their use of plants led her to become a Master Gardener

A new species of bird from the heart of Peru remained undetected for years until researchers identified it by its unique song. In 1996, a group of Louisiana State University and Florida Museum of Natural History researchers traveled to the Cordillera Azul, an isolated mountain ridge in Peru,
“Finding these guys opened up a little more inventory and exploration, which led

Scientists are asking the public to help find and document sundial lupine and wild indigo, host plants of the frosted elfin butterfly in North Florida and Georgia. Once widespread from Florida to Ontario, the frosted elfin butterfly, Callophrys irus, is in decline throughout its range. It depends
A team led by Florida Museum of Natural History scientists is asking volunteers in

Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) holds collections of animals other than vertebrates, as well as some other eukaryotes. Mollusks represent 80% of the collection, reflecting the original focus of the collection (Malacology), as well as the availability of shells. The collection was expended to IZ in 2000 an
focus of past curator Fred Thompson and collection manager John Slapcinsky has led