Papua New Guinea harbors one of the richest biotas in the world, with approximately 5 percent of the planet’s biodiversity. Yet many areas of the country are incompletely surveyed, especially for invertebrate animals like land snails. Unlike many other countries, Papua New Guinea retains mu
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The Florida Museum’s Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotan
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Bring the Museum to your school! The Florida Museum currently offers five Inquiry Box outreach programs for use in the classroom. All activities are designed to integrate social studies, language arts, math and science in a unified learning experience. Suitable for: All ages but geared to K-3rd g
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In collaboration with the Florida Museum Digital Imaging Division, the Environmental Archaeology Program’s Fish Skulls Photogrammetry Project focuses on capturing detailed 3D images of neurocrania from select taxa of fishes curated in our skeletal reference collection. This project is ongoing and li
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North American (or Bullhead) Catfishes With 49 species, Ictaluridae, the Bullhead Catfish family is the largest family of freshwater fishes endemic to North America. Bullhead catfishes are easy to recognize from other North American freshwater fishes. They have no scales, 4 pairs of barbels („w
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The Florida Museum of Natural History, a research and educational unit within the University of Florida, has an active program in paleontology and paleobiology. There are three large, relevant research collections, including paleobotany, invertebrate paleontology and vertebrate paleontology, which
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On Saturday, January 30th, 2021 the Florida Museum and the Alachua County Library District (ACLD) met to talk all things insects by digging into the book Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist, an illustrated picture biography of scientist Evelyn Cheesman and her perseverance in science during a partic
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Staff in the Ichthyology Division have contributed to several important field guides in the study of North American freshwater fishes. Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida (2018) Available from University of Florida Press Florida’s fresh waters are inhabited by 222 species of fishes in 48 fa
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Specimens in the Florida Museum’s Division of Ichthyology are generally available for scientific research or educational uses. Loans are granted at the discretion of the Curator or Collection Manager to qualified scientific professionals, to graduate students through their faculty advisor, and to o
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