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F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service have trekked diligently through forest preserves on Key Largo in search of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly, more often than not coming back with more mosquit
hardwood hammocks, hyperdiverse forests that harbor several rare species found nowhere else

Leisey Shell Pit 1A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality HI007 Location About 7 km southwest of Ruskin near Cockroach Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida; 27.69° N, 82.50° W. Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; early Irvingtonian land mammal age About 1.5 to 1 million years ago (H
Several species present at the site are found in greater numbers than anywhere else

Although St. Augustine was small, remote and poor, life in the town was governed by traditional Spanish municipal organization, with a mayor and city officials in addition to the military and crown-appointed government officials. The daily, weekly and monthly practices of the Catholic Church were a
Everybody else fastened their simple clothing with laces tipped by metal ends known

I have always loved to read, but it is a pastime that I seldom find time for these days. As my schedule this summer began filling up—classes, interning, tutoring, general life stuff, etc. I realized, much to my dismay, this summer was not going to serve as an opportunity to catch up on the titles
same geological epoch we exist in now, the Holocene—is it weird for anyone else

In his book, “The Immense Journey,� anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, “If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water.� There are few people who seemed to have grasped this truth as completely as Harry George Lee of Jacksonville, Florida, a physician, globe-trotter, researcher and an av
do not follow it as a vocation but instead are forced or choose to do something else

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added a new location to its known range: Ocala National Forest. They also confirmed the insect feeds on a second, but highly endangered, host plant. Researchers made th
The region harbors plant and animal species found nowhere else, but ranks among the

Thunnus atlanticus These migratory tuna prefer the warm coastal waters of the Western Atlantic, where they form large schools with skipjack tuna and strain prey out of the water like smaller fish, squid, and shrimp. Torpedo-shaped and strong swimmers, they are dark on top, fading to silver and th
The buoyant eggs produce pelagic larvae, little else is known about the eggs.

An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually a lizard. The new species, named Oculudentavis naga in honor of the Naga people of Myanmar and India, is represente
Myanmar’s amber deposits are a treasure trove of fossil lizards found nowhere else

Before the summer of 1916, there was still debate about whether sharks could kill humans. Most people were not even sure if a shark could bite a human. One of them was New York multimillionaire Hermann Oelrichs, who offered a $500 reward in 1891 for anyone who proved a shark attacked a human. Tha
“The fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be eaten by something else,�

At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one too many rounds. But the deep gash in its forehead studded with blue spikes is a natural feature whose function remains a mystery. Discovered by Florida Museum of Natural History researche
“He probably knew more about Thung Yai than anyone else.