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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
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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

Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
Eyes’ kind of way and have gone almost full-blown cannibal,” said Patrick Krug, professor

Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in an unassuming brown or beige color, while others stand out in varied palettes with everything from neon pinks to electric blues. They’re called ribbon worms, and about 1,350 different species have
the iceberg compared to what’s really out there,â€� said Svetlana Maslakova, a professor

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
in a society,� said Jason von Meding, the executive director of GatorCorps and professor

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
often get called ‘brown, boring butterflies,’� said André Freitas, a biology 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

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