NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Gray Rat Snake, Oak Snake, White Oak Snake Basic description Most adult Gray Ratsnakes are about 42-72 inches (106-183 cm) in total length. Adults are light gray with darker gray blotches down the back. The belly is sandy-gray with dark square blotches. Juveniles
The underside of the tail typically do not have two dark stripes.
Evolution of monocotyledonous geophytes with special focus on African Ledebouria and close relatives (Asparagaceae) Ledebouria is a group of approximately 54 flowering plant species in the Scilloideae (Asparagaceae). The taxonomic uncertainty that characterizes this group can be attributed to its l
group does not occur in the Mediterranean basin since some closely related taxa have
From 1513 onward, Spanish and French explorers and would-be colonizers had attempted
Discover magazine suggested what Seloy’s council house might have looked like, based
Recovery Methods in Zooarchaeology The Environmental Archaeology Program has a long history of interest in the use of appropriate archaeological methods for the recovery of animal remains. Early research by Wing showed that recovery of the full complement of animal remains is often best achieved by
Her studies have shown so far that the increase in rate of recovery of remains is
Love Site (also known as LOVE BONE BED) University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL001 Location About 1 mile north of Archer, Alachua County, Florida, just off Route 241; 29.55° N, 82.52° W. Age Late Miocene Epoch; latest Clarendonian land mammal age About 9.5 to 9 million y
ungulates (proboscideans, artiodactyls, and perissodactyls), of which 21 species have
Welcome to our annual report for fiscal year 2024. Most notable was the opening of our first new permanent exhibition gallery in many years, “Water Shapes Florida”, as well as our highest annual visitor attendance ever!
Abramowitz, B., M. Ennes, B. Kester, and P. Antonenko. 2024.
Sclerochronology is the study of astronomical cycles recorded in the hard tissues of organisms such as the shells of mollusks and corals or the teeth and horns of mammals. It is analogous to dendrochronology, the study of annual rings in trees. Sclerochronology comes from the Greek word ’skleros‘ me
Figure 1 During your last trip to the beach you may have noticed the concentric
Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall 1659 Museum Road Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800 352-273-1943 dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu Collections & Programs Herpetology Collection Blackburn Lab openVertebrate (oVert) Project Other Affiliations Chair, Department of Natur
2023 AAAS fellows Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have
NSF DBI-1458604 Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: An Ontology-Based System for Querying Life in a Post-Taxonomic Age Project website Improving our understanding of life, whether the biology of individual species such as our own, or the mechanisms and processes governing biodiversity
Second, there are many groups of organisms that do not yet and may never have a Linnaean
With the close of the Spring 2025 semester, we are proud to celebrate several of our students who graduated from the University of Florida upon the completion of their theses and dissertations! Our students are a source of enthusiasm and excitement here in the Florida Museum. We thoroughly enjoy
We thoroughly enjoy mentoring the next generation of researchers and have a deep
