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Caterpillar droppings: Sisyphean labor meets Herculean task – Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/andrei-sourakov/activities/caterpillar-droppings/

When Hercules was tasked by Eurystheus with cleaning up after King Augeas‘ cattle in a single day, he had his work cut out for him. But Hercules, being not only a superhero but also a wiz, figured out a painless solution and diverted a nearby river so that its waters would do the work for him. All a
caterpillars in bags that, akin to baby diapers, need to be frequently changed, or else

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Stone Hoes – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/object/stone-hoes/

These objects are shaped like axes, but don’t hold a sharp edge and are too heavy to be practical. They may have been used as hoes, or as a trade facilitator – unique objects given during negotiations to show how important (or not!) your trade partner was. Summary Stone Hoes Made by Native Isla
example it was owned by so-and-so, who gave it to so-and-so, who gave it to someone else

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Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida’s largest remaining seagrass bed – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-use-fossils-to-assess-the-health-of-floridas-largest-remaining-seagrass-bed/

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida’s Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thous
If mollusks are doing well, it’s likely that everything else is too.

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Links – Paleobotany + Palynology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/paleobotany/resources/links/

Other Paleobotanical Collections and Databases This is not an exhaustive list of all paleobotanical collections and/or databases. If you would like your site to be listed, please send your web address to Hongshan Wang. The Cuticle Database is an image collection of plant cuticles prepared from vou
from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale (360 million years ago) not known anywhere else

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Threats to the Keys – South Florida Aquatic Environments

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/southflorida/regions/keys/threats/

The native habitats and communities of the Florida Keys are being severely impacted directly and indirectly by human activity. The Keys and south Florida are the only locations in the U.S. to support tropical flora with over 120 species of trees in the hardwood hammock alone! Along with
Introduced species are those organisms that are native to somewhere else that have

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Shark attacks drop during coronavirus lockdown – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/shark-attacks-drop-during-coronavirus-lockdown/

Shark attack numbers have sunk to dramatic lows, likely a side effect of closed beaches and widespread quarantines, according to experts at the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File. Only 18 unprovoked shark bites have been confirmed globally from Jan. 1 to June 18, down from 24
at this time of year, with only two bites in Florida, is a sign that something else

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Peruvian mummy lice may give clues about human migration – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/peruvian-mummy-lice-may-give-clues-about-human-migration/

Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
been displaced from their homeland with the clothes on their backs and nothing else

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The Fishes of Montbrook – Montbrook Fossil Dig

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/blog/the-fishes-of-montbrook/

The great tragedy of the Montbrook dig site is that we showed up five million years late to what would have been a pretty epic fish fry. Bony fish (Osteichthyes) fossils make up about a third of the cataloged fossils from the site, (about 7200 specimens). Most of these cataloged specimens are macro-
that they were most likely the modern channel catfish, Ictalurus punctactus, or else

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Researcher receives grant to study birds in the Andes – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/researcher-receives-grant-to-study-birds-in-the-andes/

With $800,000 from the National Science Foundation, Florida Museum of Natural History conservation biologist Scott Robinson is researching bird ranges in the Andes Mountains. Robinson is leading a team of about 20 researchers measuring ideal temperatures for different species’ survival, study
of these species can just move upslope – the problem is, there’s something else

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