Jesse Barber Courtesy Asst. Curator jessebarber@boisestate.edu Jamie Beach Digitization Assistant jamiebeach@ufl.edu Michael Belitz PhD student mbelitz@ufl.edu Bob Belmont Curatorial Associate bbelmont@ufl.edu Sidney Bennett FSCA Research Technician Sidney.Bennett@fdacs
Checkerspots and other Brush-footed butterflies Microlepidoptera Zoomed-on Micros Wild
Anyone intrigued by snakes may decide to keep one as a pet or as an object of fascination. Responsible snake ownership requires considerations which may not be immediately obvious to all. The following provides summary information and basic requirements for responsible snake ownership. For a fuller
CBB animals are almost always healthier than their wild-caught (WC) counterparts.
The funds for the Summer of 2024 were requested for both travel to present at the North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) current research carried out at FLMNH and to continue outreach at the Wind River Indian Reservation. At NAPC, I presented a fossil plant, “A Woody Angiosperm from the
fossil plant, “A Woody Angiosperm from the Green River Formation in Eastern and Western
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers have co-authored the first comprehensive study on the evolution of two agricultural pests commonly used as model organisms. Tobacco and tomato hornworms are among the largest caterpillars, able to individually devastate an entire plant if left unc
quinquemaculatus, are widespread hawkmoths occurring as far north as New York and west
Hurricanes are synonymous with the Florida experience. And for some reason, so are flamingos. They’re rare in most parts of our state, so a lone flamingo circling above a local lake this week had the birders squawking. These tall wading birds prefer coastal areas where they sieve tiny invertebrat
Wild flamingos don’t frequently set foot in Florida, but when they do, they tend
The Caribbean Archaeology Program was founded in 1960 by Ripley P. Bullen. The program is based around one of the largest systematic collections of pre-Columbian artifacts in North America. What the collection lacks in size is compensated for by its diversity. Contact Us For more informa
Presently a map of the West Indies and a list of the islands and the sites represented
Feasting at a Cocoa Beach pizza parlor grease bin gave one northern curly-tailed lizard a record-breaking case of constipation. Mouthfuls of insects, an anole and greasy sand congealed into an unpassable glob of poop nearly 80% of the animal’s total body mass – the largest known feces-to-body-mass r
invasive northern curly tail has successfully established populations from Key West
An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record have conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and Maryland coasts. These seemingly unrelated threads were woven together when Nic
shipwreck folklore by Jerald Pinson • July 27, 2022 The origin of Assateague’s wild
The Silk Cotton or Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] is one of the largest trees in the American tropics. The tree has played an important role in the spiritual and economic lives of the peoples who live in the circum-Caribbean region. The Ceiba is a rapidly growing deciduous tree that
in 1526, were both impressed by the size of the canoes that the Indians in the West
Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle. Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for small mammals, Hysterangium bonobo is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the
science should be valued, preserved and protected.� Georgiev tracked a group of wild
