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Whether you love them or fear them, this Children’s Book Meetup is sure to help you understand a little bit more about one of the ocean’s most well-known predators – sharks! On Saturday, December 5, 2020 the Florida Museum and the Alachua County Library District (ACLD) met to talk all things sharks
video to sink your teeth into this fin-tastic event and to hear all the questions sent
As University of Florida archaeologist Bill Keegan studies the ancient Lucayan people, inhabitants of the Caribbean for hundreds of years, he must rewrite the textbook on life in the Bahamas before Columbus. And then, he packs what he knows in a suitcase. Keegan, curator of Caribbean archaeolo
Bahamian classrooms today contain information from Christopher Columbus’ reports sent
At the middle of the seventeenth century, St. Augustine’s population was only between about 500 and 600 people. By the end of that century, it had risen to more than 1,400, and by the time the Spaniards evacuated St. Augustine in 1763 there were more than 3,000 residents. This steady growth came ab
number of soldiers in the garrison, the arrival of groups of convicts and laborers sent
This video takes viewers on location to the Aucilla River in northwest Florida where Museum scientists search underwater for mammoth and mastodon fossils as well as other artifacts. Back in the Museum lab, scientists demonstrate and explain the process of making specimen casts. The segment is part
barbed ivory point which now can be put on display in the exhibit hall or can be sent
The University of Florida Herbarium welcomes visitors with a legitimate research interest to consult the collections. The herbarium holds a vast storehouse of information in its library and with museum specimens of historic importance dating back into the mid-1800s. The specimens are fragile and ar
be received from the administrator of your herbarium before the material will be sent
When the first Spanish period ended in 1763, the incoming English authorities asserted that any Spaniards who remained in the colony under their rule could freely practice Catholicism. Nevertheless, only three or four people elected to remain in Florida, and a mass exodus took place in 1763 and 1764
Fish was born in 1724 or 1726 to an English merchant family in New York, who sent
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species there. The genetic information collected by scientists from the Florida Museum is part of a
The samples are sent to an on-site DNA extractor for immediate preparation, and the
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers evaluated how a type of professional development, called train-the-trainer, could help teachers improve their practice. And they did it for a topic that is arguably one of the most difficult for educators to broach. “People want to talk about c
professional development so effective was once you were trained, you weren’t just sent
Patricia (Pat) Crandon was born in Miami, Florida, at the start of the “Roaring Twenties” on February 12, 1920. Her father, Charles Henry Crandon, a Dade County, Florida, Commissioner from 1929 to 1949, was admired for negotiating, prior to WWII, the gift of over 800 acres of land on Biscayne Key, M
hand-drawn cards created by Pat for holidays and birthdays, including those Pat sent
To be fair, the newly described Waray dwarf burrowing snake is pretty great at hiding. In its native habitat on the islands of Samar and Leyte in the Philippines, the snake usually surfaces only after heavy rains, similar to earthworms washing up on suburban sidewalks after a downpour. So, it
He also sent the snakes to Daniel Paluh, a University of Florida doctoral student
