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Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in

Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine’s fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of slave raiders descending from the Carolinas. You pack in haste. You leave m
The test excavations led Waters to believe they were digging in the Potano village

Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
Portell has led fieldwork on the naval station since 2007.

Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species of hybrid butterfly from the state’s interior is proving that theory correct. Belonging to a group known as the Arctics, the Tanana Arctic, Oeneis tanana, is the first new butterfly
history of arctic North America and the evolution of hybrid species, said Warren, who led

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
A group of researchers, led by scientists at the Field Museum, the Florida Museum

Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
recalled. “But it was the coolest experience I had ever had.� That experience led

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
This has led to misidentifications of fish that were actually undescribed species

The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus Bruce MacFadden, who worked in the position for 47 years before retiring last month. Jukar primarily studies the fossils of large mammals that went extinct af
and Jukar quickly found himself working in a herpetology lab, which eventually led

As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
together to make an impact for wildlife, people and the planet.� The programs are led

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium, also known by the acronym FLAS, is the oldest and largest plant collection in the state and among the largest Neotrop
Majure is also a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $3.6 million grant led