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Neofiber alleni Quick Facts Common Name: round-tailed muskrat, Florida water rat This large aquatic rodent is a relative of voles and lemmings. Although today restricted to Florida and southern Georgia, in the Pleistocene the species lived as far north as South Carolina and possibly West
Neofiber alleni True, 1884 Source of Species Name: This species was named after Professor

Ava Johnson Undergraduate volunteer I love all things insects, but especially Lepidoptera! I’ve been raising caterpillars since as long as I can remember, from swallowtails to monarchs to woolly bears and even hornworms. These creatures inspire me not only as a scientific curiosity, but they als
Education 2009-2012:  PhD Genetics (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Advisor: Professor

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Mary White retired in 2003 after teaching for 20 years at Idylwild Elementary School in southwest Gainesville, she had three things planned. “I was going to become a master gardener, I was going to volunteer at the Florida Museum of Natural History and I was going t
Massachusetts before moving to Gainesville in the early 1970s with her late husband, Professor

Dozens of Eastern indigo snakes have been released in Florida as part of the Nature Conservancy’s program to reintroduce the rare native species to its historical habitat. Eastern indigo snakes prey on venomous snakes, but they are nonvenomous themselves and are not aggressive when approached. They
in fish in managed wetlands,� said lead researcher Brett Poulin, an assistant professor

“Science is a team sport,� said Roger Creel, a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, speaking to the importance of the 31st annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop he recently attended in Gainesville, Florida.  When the playing field is a melting ice sheet, and the s
Reed Scherer, a professor at Northern Illinois University, presented this seemingly

If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails and the clams they hunt for food increased in abundance for several decades during the late 1800s and early 1900s, evidence of a vibrant and healthy ecosystem. Then, a
and less competition from other species,� said Martin Zuschin, a paleontology professor

Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking ware and earthen vessels. Archaeologist Ann Cordell has spent her entire career studying this material, from the oldest pottery made in North America 4,500 years ago t
Academic Women  Awards & Honors Michal Kowalewski named 2024 UF Research Foundation professor

University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program that uses 3-D printed fossils and hands-on lessons to spark young learners’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Known as iDigFossils,
they otherwise wouldn’t have access to,� said Bruce MacFadden, distinguished professor

Butterflies fly during the day while moths travel at night – or so you might think. In reality, their behavior is much more complicated. A new Florida Museum of Natural History study offers the first comprehensive overview of the surprisingly complex question of when butterflies and moths are act
framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor

It’s easy to get carried away romanticizing the cushy lives of the fabulously wealthy, even those who lived in exotic ancient cultures. We may pin all sorts of stereotypes to them: that they employed servants to perform their mundane chores, bought or bartered for everything they needed and never li
Daniela Triadan, co-director of the Aguateca Archaeology Project, and an archaeology professor