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T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
The Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris, lives in Central America and the Amazon

A new University of Florida study describes a 16-foot, 900-pound ancient species of crocodilian that swam in the same rivers as Titanoboa 60 million years ago in the world’s oldest-known rain forest. The newly named reptile, which has an unusually blunt snout for species in the dyrosaurids fa
A. balrogus was ecologically very similar to crocodiles in the Amazon today, while

Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that won first place in the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest competition. The winners were announced Friday, Nov. 15 at a summit held in Rio de Janeiro. More than $7 million was awar
challenging and thrilling experience to run a full molecular lab in the middle of the Amazon

Attum, O., C. Covell & P. Eason. 2004. The comparative diet of three Saharan sand dune skinks. African Journal of Herpetology, 53 (1): 91 -94. Austin G. T., D. D. Murphy, J. F. Baughman, A. E. Launer, and E. Fleishman. 2003. Hybridization of checkerspot butterflies in the Great Basin. Journal
Common Butterflies of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Frogs date back more than 150 million years in the fossil record, and for centuries, the amphibians have been idolized and used in various ways by different cultures. Frog toxins are remarkably potent in the human body and may be used to treat heart ailments, infections, cancer, depression, strok
Amazon rain forest.

Selected Sawfish References Adams, W. F. and Wilson, C. R. The status of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata Latham 1794 (Rajiformes: Pristidae) in the United States. Unpublished manuscript. MS. Wilmington, N.C, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Baughman, J. L. 1943. Notes on sawfish Pristis p
Occurrence of the sawfish, Pristis perotteti, in the Amazon River, with notes on

One of the richest butterfly radiations in the Neotropical lowlands is the nymphalid satyrine subtribe Euptychiina, which is also one of the three most poorly studied groups of ‘true butterflies’ (Papilionoidea). In fact, few other animal groups that are so taxonomically challenging are as speciose,
Amazon, where 100 species can coexist (Lamas et al., 1991; Brown, 1996), while the

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
Although she was in the Amazon working with indigenous communities to purchase and

Butterflies fly during the day while moths travel at night – or so you might think. In reality, their behavior is much more complicated. A new Florida Museum of Natural History study offers the first comprehensive overview of the surprisingly complex question of when butterflies and moths are act
adaptable to all kinds of environments, whether it’s the top of a mountain, an Amazon

Riley Gott began his doctoral studies in August 2022 studying the taxonomy and systematics of the primarily Neotropical butterfly genera Dalla, Ladda, and Piruna (family Hesperiidae), under a joint graduate assistantship from the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Entomology and
Immature stages of Ebusus ebusus ebusus (Cramer, 1780) in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera