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Perhaps you have worn a string of pearls around your neck, paid for a diver to retrieve what you hope is a lucky shell or recognize these lustrous gems as your birth stone. But have you ever wondered where these iconic minerals come from, what makes a pearl a true pearl, and how a pearl can become a
student majoring in geology and anthropology when he joined a quarry excavation led

I have been working on moths known as Erythrina Stem Borer (or twig borer) since 2010, which turned out to be several similar species with similar biologies found around the world. Suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, the moths have become a major horticultural pest in southern California, where Eryth
treatment by pesticides of some on the wounds a week prior to our visit seem to have led

Takeaways from the University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit The way we tell the climate story has the power to transform a feeling of collective overwhelm into one of collective empowerment.   The University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit brought
movement “took on a life of its own,� and within just eight days, public outcry led

Epidemic diseases ravaged both Indians and Spaniards through the seventeenth century. Between 1614 and 1617 friars estimated that nearly half of the Timucua Indians died. Yellow fever became epidemic in 1649, killing Spaniards and Indians alike. A smallpox outbreak occurred in 1655, and killed all
Augustine as a soldier in 1680, and he led the successful battle against the French

During the 1800s, the world was going through transformations steered by war, invention, scientific innovation and the discovery of new land. The time period saw the collapse of some empires and the rise of others, from the British and Japanese to the booming United States of America. The Industrial
Burmese python is Florida’s largest invasive species documented in a recent study led

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
This mismatch has led to several cases of mistaken identity.

An international team of researchers has outlined a plan for how to measure changes in key traits of animals and plants and provide these data to policymakers to improve natural resource management and keep nations on track to meet global biodiversity and sustainability goals.  Monitoring species
first author Daniel Kissling, both of whom co-chair GEO BON’s data task force, led

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
This led Lambert (1997) to conclude that these fish bones were the stomach contents

Sawfish may look somewhat like sharks, but with wide pectoral fins and flatter bodies, they are actually modified rays. Their rostrum (snout), instead of teeth, has specialized denticles which are a type of scales, that they use to stun and injure small fish before eating them. Smalltooth sawfish gr
This led researchers to propose locations for study that had the highest probability

The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years. The hutia, which resembles a bristly beanbag, flourished in the Bahamas for millennia, the island
paradoxical role in the hutia’s boom-to-bust story, according to a new study led