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Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that won first place in the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest competition. The winners were announced Friday, Nov. 15 at a summit held in Rio de Janeiro. More than $7 million was awar
Museum, and Julie Allen, former Florida Museum Ph.D. student and current assistant professor

In 2012, a crop of California’s most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and falling away, revealing stems that had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina st
analysis of insects provided by the late Dan Lindsley, formerly a retired UC San Diego professor

Pseudemys williamsi Quick Facts Common Name: Williams’ cooter Pseudemys williamsi is a member of the family Emydidae, which includes the pond and box turtles. This species has been only been positively identified from two Florida localities. Pseudemys williamsi has a smooth shell and sh
Williams, a professor at Harvard University who studied recent and fossil turtles

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

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

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 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

Dragons are everywhere. Rachel Keeffe knows this. She recently talked to UF News about dragons on the Game of Thrones series. If dragons could exist, what would they look like? How and where would they thrive? Rachel is currently a herpetology Ph.D. student at the Florida Museum/UF departm
Since many included reptile and amphibian references, she consulted a previous professor

When scientists and policymakers make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. Environments with more diversity support a greater number of species and provide more ecosystem services, making them the obvious choice. There’s just on
mutually exclusive measurements,” said co-author Douglas Soltis, a distinguished professor

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology Program received a nearly $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to curate some of its most delicate specimens and vital data, documenting 14,000 years of biodiversity in vulnerable regions around the Caribbean. Environmental a
Elise LeCompte and Edward Stanley of the Florida Museum as well as Elizabeth Reitz, professor