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Resources Repository, a nitrogen-cooled freezer with… Read More A gift of more than 2 million
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Distinguished… Read More About 55 million years ago, a warming event that swept
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Continue According to a new report from the Florida Policy Institute, more than 5.7 million
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duration of the “Tiny … Continue GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors can discover 70 million
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duration of the “Tiny … Continue GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors can discover 70 million
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Labrador Duck and Passenger Pigeon roosting in front … Continue Step back in time 290 million
Seven tiny teeth tell the story of an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North and South America into modern-day Panama – the first fossil evidence for the existence of monkeys in North America. The find provides the oldest fossil evidence for the interchange of mammal
of Panama was formed and animals began crossing between the continents about 3.5 million
The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of the annual Austin and Bullen awards for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. The museum has additionally established a third award category for excellence in biodiversi
stability maps of where forests have likely persisted for the last two-and-a-half million
During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew near the planet’s poles, only to be reduced to a series of islands as melting ice returned to the sea during warm periods. All told, glaciers advanced and retreated 17 times, a
a much longer view of how species have fared over time, one that covers several million
E. O. Wilson once referred to invertebrates as “the little things that run the world,� without whom “the human species [wouldn’t] last more than a few months.� Although small, invertebrates have an outsized influence on their environments, pollinating plants, breaking down organic matter and speedin
With more than one million known species, insects alone vastly outnumber all other
