The Florida Museum of Natural History Historical Archaeology program has had active research projects ongoing in St. Augustine, Florida since 1973, and in Hispaniola since 1979. The sites and their collections have provided a continuum of Spanish colonial settlement in the circum-Caribbean region,
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Interested in attracting butterflies to your property? Our plant sale features native, nectar, host and accent plants, with proceeds benefiting the Florida Museum’s Butterfly Rainforest exhibit. Next Plant Sale Dates: TBD Location: In front of the Florida Museum For updates on future plant
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The Invertebrate Paleontology and Micropaleontology collections house nearly 6.5 million specimens, mostly collected within the last six decades from over 7,500 sites around Florida, the southeastern U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America and Antarctica.* These exceptional collections serve
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Inside the collections of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, there is a collection of cocoon artifacts, donated by Dr. Richard Peigler. While most people associate the use of cocoons with the production of silk (sericulture), cocoons are used in many other ways. For thousands of y
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Collections held by natural history museums are like a library of life, with millions of objects that document change through time in the environment and in life itself. These records of life on Earth become even more vital as we face global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Interested in attracting butterflies to your property? We offer native, nectar, and host as well as accent plants for purchase daily in our gift shop. We also host big semiannual outdoor plant sales with more than 100 species available. Discover which pollinator species you can attract and learn a
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Discovery Time is a video series by our Discovery Zone Nature Ambassadors, designed for families with young children (2+, but all ages are welcome) to introduce kids to nature. Highlights Short family-friendly videos, each with a unique topic to explore. Guided open exploration on a varie
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Botanist Mark Whitten was rummaging in an old drawer in the University of Florida Herbarium for tracing paper when he discovered something unexpected: hundreds of World War II-era watercolor paintings, each of a unique Florida plant. Likely untouched in the 20 years since the herbarium’s move int
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The Florida Museum maintains five separate fossil vertebrate collections. The specimens derive mainly from the Cenozoic Era (last 65 million years), with more than 80% coming from about 1200 localities in Florida. Other major contributing regions are islands in the Caribbean Basin, Central and Sout
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