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Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the “abominable mystery” of early plant evolution. In two papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2007, the Florida Museum a
Robert Jansen, professor of integrative biology at The University of Texas at Austin

New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to a study lead by a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. The study sheds light on a hotly debated topic in evolutionary biology: the origin of modern Homo sapi
Mark Hafner, a professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University who

With the full onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, museums faced the dilemma of having to maintain outreach efforts without the ability to showcase in-person exhibits. Roughly 90% of museums worldwide closed their doors to the public, and many remained shuttered for the remainder of the yea
at all levels,” said study co-author Gail Jones, alumni distinguished graduate professor

The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of the annual Austin and biodiversity graduate student awards. Jeanette Pirlo, who recently completed a doctorate in biology, and Indah Huegele, a current doctoral candidate studying paleobotany, both received the 2023 Austin Award f
Pirlo graduated in the summer and is now an assistant professor of evolutionary biology

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

A new study co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher provides the first direct chronological test of sequence stratigraphy, a powerful tool for exploring Earth’s natural resources. The model allows geologists to better understand how sedimentary rocks are related to one another in time and
researchers tested includes changes occurring today, said Carlton Brett, a geology professor

Before modern-day pregnancy tests, doctors in the early 20th century resorted to unusual methods. One was to expose a live African clawed frog to a woman’s urine, then wait hours to see if it laid eggs. If it did, the test was positive. The frogs were used in pregnancy tests until the 1970s when
understand how much diversity there is and where it occurs,” said Evans, an associate professor

A new study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state’s geologic history, showing Florida could be 10 million to 15 million years older than previously believed. The discovery of land in Florida during the early Eocene opens the
we thought we knew was an incomplete body of information,” said Fredrick Rich, a professor

A study by University of Florida and University of Kansas researchers describing eight new cusk-eel species provides data for better understanding how disasters like the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill impact biodiversity and the environment. The 60-year study appearing Tuesday in the Florida Museu
, completed much of the fieldwork and collected many examples of cusk-eels as a 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