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With ocean life facing unprecedented threat from climate change, overfishing, pollution, invasive species and habitat destruction, a University of Florida researcher is helping coordinate national efforts to monitor marine biodiversity. Humans depend on the ocean for food, medicine, transport
Jim Carlton, a professor at Williams College in Massachusetts and director of the

Nearly 150 million years ago, many ancient crustaceans went extinct following a massive collapse of reefs across the planet, and new Florida Museum of Natural History research suggests modern species living in rapidly declining reef habitats may now be at risk. Available online and scheduled to a
students Awards & Honors Michal Kowalewski named 2024 UF Research Foundation professor

The relentless roar of natural gas compressors influences the numbers of insects and spiders nearby, triggering decreases in many types of arthropods sensitive to sounds and vibrations, a collaborative Florida Museum of Natural History study shows. Populations of grasshoppers, froghoppers, velvet
decomposition and overall ecological health, said study co-author Akito Kawahara, assistant professor

It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our tables with stuffing and pumpkin pie the way most of us imagine the Pilgrims did at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. But there’s just one catch, according to archaeologists at the Flori
UF retired history professor Michael Gannon wrote in his influential book on the

The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone from a frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus, also known as rain frogs or co
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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
principal investigator, and co-principal investigators Cellinese and Walter Judd, professor

A new study from Florida Museum of Natural History researchers could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve? For the last 150 years, some paleontologists have concluded the great white shark, Carcharodon carcha
modern white shark, said vertebrate paleontologist Kenshu Shimada, an associate professor

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2018 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. The University Teaching Committee honored two winners for each award at a ceremony
Checa is presently a professor in the department of biology at the Pontifical Catholic

The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees‘ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by Florida Museum and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and
in the evolution of flowering plants,” said David Dilcher, a graduate research professor

University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life’s work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage daughter, Alexandra, who led research on how color impacts butterflies’ feeding patterns. The research shows different species exhibit unique foraging behaviors
how different organs are used in finding food, said Adriana Briscoe, an associate professor