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The University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated 100 years of inspiring people to care about life on Earth in 2017. To mark the closing of an era and the beginning of a new century, UF News profiled three Florida Museum women who are shaping the research institution’s future
MMCO), a natural global warming event that occurred about 17 million years ago and 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

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
Around 11 a.m., the crew would switch gears and renowned guide captain Jim Wilcox led

About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate known as Teilhardina first curled its fingers around a branch. The earliest-known ancestor of modern primates, Teilhardina’s close relatives would eventually give rise to today’s monkey
warming 56 million years ago is that it marks the origin of the group that ultimately led

About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had me
But a sustained pattern of global cooling that began about 14 million years ago led

Shark fishing in the United States occurs both recreationally and commercially. Commercial shark fishers use methods that allow them to catch large quantities of sharks to be sold at market. Recreational shark fishers mainly catch sharks for the thrill of the catch, trophies and/or personal consumpt
is a non-weighted line allowing it to remain higher in the water column than the led

Seminole Field University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PI004 Location Along banks of Joes Creek (labeled Saint Joes Creek on Google Maps) and its tributaries; about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of downtown St. Petersburg and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida; 27
Herbert Winters of the Florida Geological Survey led field parties that collected