Are you rrrrrready to rrrrrumble?! It’s a crocodilian battle royal at the Florida Museum and YOU decide the winner! Are you Team Crocs or Team Gators? Cheer on Florida Museum herpetologists Edward Stanley and David Blackburn as they debate crocodiles versus alligators and take part in this epic sho
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**CANCELED** Due to public gathering restrictions, this year’s ButterflyFest celebration has been canceled along with the Facebook Photo Challenge. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you’ve already submitted an entry for this year’s challenge, please email photocontest@floridamuseum.ufl.edu. St
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In honor of our new exhibit opening, the Florida Museum is hosting the Water Shapes Florida Photo Challenge! The challenge is designed to educate and promote awareness of Florida’s freshwater habitats. Capture your best picture and enter by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 1, for your chance to win priz
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Join us for the opening of our new permanent exhibit! Enjoy live entertainment, take part in water workshops, grab a bite to eat from food trucks and visit the refurbished cave at this FREE family-friendly festival celebrating Water Shapes Florida! Food Trucks: B’z Gelati, 12-4 p.m. Schedule of Ev
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We were so excited to be asked by our neighbors to throw a party this summer! Here at the UF Cultural Plaza, we sit right between the Harn Museum of Art and Phillips Center for Performing Arts, and while we’re all busy welcoming visitors and contributing to life on the University of Florida campus,
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The Florida Museum’s mission is inspiring people to care about life on Earth, which includes nature. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we can start by appreciating the natural world right in our own backyards. Using Museum resources, spend a day, or an hour, learning about Florida’s b
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Recently, we conducted a hands-on science event at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Ocala, about an hour south of Gainesville. One of us (Sourakov) already had a talk prepared about moth biology in conjunction with the launch of his 2022 book, The Lives of Moths, so we
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ButterflyFest is an annual fun-for-all-ages festival to celebrate backyard wildlife with an emphasis on pollinators!
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One of the most amazing phenomena in nature is the annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, southward from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains to overwintering sites in the mountains of southern Mexico.
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By Luz Helena Oviedo | Content and exhibit manager, Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute The days when science was restricted to papers and scientists only did research are gone. Science communication is taking scientific research to neighborhoods, the beach, social me
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