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Globally acclaimed artist and beloved Florida Museum of Natural History collaborator Naziha Mestaoui passed away on April 29. She was 44 years old. Mestaoui’s interactive, grand-scale outdoor projections highlighted the connections between all living things, and the Paris-based artist was per
Mestaoui helps University of Florida President Kent Fuchs upload his heartbeat to

The UF campus has an incredibly diverse collection of native and cultivated plants growing on its over 2,000 acres. Specimens to document the campus plant life have been preserved in the Herbarium since the 1920s. We are databasing and imaging these legacy specimens and purposefully enriching those
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The Department of Natural History had an outstanding year in 2015-2016 with 27 faculty overseeing about $65M in total external grant support for research and collection activities, including 59 new grants this fiscal year totaling $8.3M! This per-capita funding rate is extremely high, even for a res
Informal Learners Bruce MacFadden 09/30/2017 $1,440,431 Austin Hendy, Shari Ellis, Kent

An hour after sunrise, Andrew Kratter stands in the dew-soaked grass of an East Gainesville graveyard, watching the sky for what looks like a bowling pin with wings – the common loon, Gavia immer. Kratter, manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s ornithology collection, has scouted for
Birder and Florida Museum volunteer Adam Kent watches for migrating loons.Florida

Scientists publish scientific plant names to recognize new entities such as species, subspecies, varieties and forms. A nomenclatural type specimen is a herbarium sheet(s) or illustration to which the name of a taxon (species, genus, subspecies, variety, etc.) is permanently assigned. The name may
the UF Herbarium web page, “Annotation of Type Specimens: Recommendations,” by Kent

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth, which can be more than 7 inches long. But these teeth, described by some scientists as the „ultimate cutting tools,“ took millions of years to evolve into their final, iconic form. Megalodon’s earliest
the Calvert Marine Museum and the National Museum of Natural History and Bretton Kent

Updated and edited by Roger W. Portell
KENT, B.W. 1994. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region.

Coleman 2A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality SM001 Location Coleman 2A is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Sumterville, between US Highway 301 and the Federal Correctional Complex Of Coleman in a former limestone quarry operated by Dixie Lime and Stone Corporation, Sumte
Robertson, Sue Hischfeld, Norm Tessman) and Florida State Museum staff (Robert Allen, Kent

It was home to Native Americans as early as 12,000 B.C., then settlers during the Civil War. Its pine trees contributed to the early 20th century turpentine industry, and for millennia its plants and wildlife have been fueled by an unlikely life source—forest fires. The 9,700-acre Ordway-Swisher
Working with Florida Museum collections manager Kent Perkins, the project has archived

Wow! Looking back at 2021 is quite an adventure. This year brought some challenges, but we also saw some pretty exciting things here at the Florida Museum. We have so much gratitude for our supporters and friends, visitors, staff and online fans for making this year so amazing! Join us in a quick
Photo courtesy of Charles O’Connor Before retiring, Kent Perkins, right, helped