The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
Smaller numbers of reef fish collections exist from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Sombrero
Now Available for Download Displayed at the Florida Museum in 2015, this exhibition highlights research on climate change over Earth’s history. Discover what 70 million years of evidence reveals about our dynamic climate, including today’s rapid rate of change. Explore a natural history climate tim
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Monarch butterflies are in serious trouble. Across eastern North America, migrating populations have plummeted more than 80% over the past two decades. News in the West is even worse, with population numbers down to less than 1% of their historic size. To counteract these declines, we must work tog
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University of Florida scientists have co-authored a study describing a new Lepidoptera species found in Jamaica’s last remaining wilderness. Belonging to the family of skipper butterflies, the new genus and species is the first butterfly discovered in Jamaica since 1995. Scientists hope the n
butterflies in the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto
The following list is provided as a guide to the trees, both native and exotic, of the University of Florida campus. Approximately 1200 individual trees in the central areas of the campus have been marked with numbered tags, corresponding the numbers given here. * = Species no longer present
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Zooarchaeological Investigations at Traders Cove Project PIs: Irv Quitmyer and Erin Thornton The Traderscove site (8VO48) is located in Volusia County, Florida in a riverine/lacustrine environment where the prehistoric people would have had local access to both terrestrial and freshwater resourc
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When Charles Darwin journeyed to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s, he collected some mysterious birds that later helped shape his theory of evolution by natural selection. Dubbed „Darwin’s finches,“ they became famous as an example of adaptive radiation, in which animals evolve from a common ances
explained the high diversity within the genus and its presence on Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto
The Political Role of Animals in the Sierra del Lacandón, Guatemala Project Zooarchaeologists: Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery Animals were used for much more than just food in the past: in many Maya communities, the control of certain animal species played an important role maintaining social net
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Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men – stories long dismissed as myths. But a new study suggests Columbus may have been telling the truth. Using the equivalent of facial recognition technology,
Arawak speakers from coastal Colombia and Venezuela migrated to Puerto Rico between
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National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Conference San Juan, Puerto
