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Researchers, educators, students and the curious can explore the history of Florida’s Spanish missions via a new online database. Launched Wednesday, the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal includes digitized artifacts, image galleries, personal narratives and details of excavation sites. Unde
Lockwood Jr., Professor of Historical Archaeology.

Butterflies are among the most vibrant flying insects, with colorful wing patterns sometimes designed to deflect predators. From frogs and lizards to birds and spiders, butterflies have scores of enemies, so thousands of Lepidoptera species have evolved to imitate leaves, eyes, beaks or other insect
David Wagner, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of

Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the classic cartoon may help children connect with nature, it popularizes the misconception that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent European settlemen
the only early place here,” said Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum distinguished 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

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