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Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy, but the origin of its cat-attracting chemical is a remarkable example of evolutionary innovation. While the compound nepetalactone drives two-thirds of cats batty, likely by mimicking sex pheromones, its real purpose
ancestral genes and enzymes, they were able to trace the sequence of events that led

In February 2020, researchers undertook a broad study of how museums used distance learning in their education programs, not anticipating the world would soon be turned on its head. With the sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases the following month, 90% of museums and science centers around t
2021 Florida Museum photographer Kristen Grace helps set up a virtual summer camp led

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
based at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, has led

Some male butterflies go to extreme lengths to ensure their paternity – sealing their mate’s genitalia with a waxy “chastity belt” to prevent future liaisons. But female butterflies can fight back by evolving larger or more complex organs that are tougher to plug. Males, in turn, counterattack by fa
some butterfly mating plugs, such as this winglike form in Euryades duponchelii, led

Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
of science and the interdisciplinary collaborations that form as a result have led

Last summer, the University of Florida and Florida State University set aside their longstanding rivalry to offer students a unique opportunity – a sharks field course. For two weeks, 10 undergraduate and graduate students roared across the Gulf of Mexico by day and bunked at research stations by
The data contribute to a Gulf Coast monitoring effort led by Grubbs’ lab.

The Ceramic Type collection of the Florida Museum of Natural History historical archaeology laboratory has three major components. These include the Historical Archaeology Type collections (HTC), The Lister Collection (LC), and the Illustrated Collection (IC). The Historical Archaeology Type coll
This work led to several major archaeological research collections reflecting plantation

Cane Basket Examples of Seminole cane baskets are rare in collections. The Florida Museum is one of the few museums that permanently displays an historic cane basket (Figure 1). The basket is estimated to have been made around the early 1830s, and the techniques for creating it reflect those us
The telltale feature that led Bell to this proposition is the basket’s stitchwork

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lights, camera, action! The Florida Museum of Natural History and Digital Worlds Institute invite the public to a free screening of the new animated short film “TreeTender 2� on Jan. 25 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The film seeks to inform viewers about the important role biodiversity
storytellers worked with us to develop a storyline that we all really liked, which led

Message from the Director: The Hurricane Ian Recovery Process Following my presentation at the Museum Director’s luncheon at the RRC, one consistent question came up: when is the (entire) Calusa Heritage Trail going to be back and open for business? Although my talk had focused on re-kindling r
knowledge, combined with the fact that the foot bridge had suffered significant damage, led