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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
framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor

It’s easy to get carried away romanticizing the cushy lives of the fabulously wealthy, even those who lived in exotic ancient cultures. We may pin all sorts of stereotypes to them: that they employed servants to perform their mundane chores, bought or bartered for everything they needed and never li
Daniela Triadan, co-director of the Aguateca Archaeology Project, and an archaeology professor

Previous Research Curassows Andean guans Curassows Curassows (Family: Cracidae) are among the most threatened neotropical birds due to hunting pressure and logging. They are large birds (2-4 kg), which spend most of their time in the forest floor and only go in the trees to roost, to esc
Robinson Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation 352-273-1965 Florida Museum

Day 1: February 26th, 2022 I didn’t know what to expect on my first trip to the dig site, considering how far it was from Gainesville and how deep into private property it was. I made it to the site on time. I thought the surrounding forest was very vast and provided a nice landscape. The cows were
I asked my professor for the class, Dr.

Ask many Americans what they know about early colonial America, and Disney’s “Pocahontas” will probably enter the conversation. Although the classic cartoon may help children connect with nature, it popularizes the misconception that Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent European settlemen
the only early place here,” said Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum distinguished professor

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
in a society,” said Jason von Meding, the executive director of GatorCorps and professor

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
that often get called ‘brown, boring butterflies,’” said André Freitas, a biology professor

Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover the cost of travel associated with their research. After a long year of travel restrictions, the funds were especially helpful to this year’s recipients, many of wh
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Feet from the raw bars and sherbet-colored condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, researchers discovered a new species of egg-sucking sea slug, a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians. Named Olea hensoni in honor of Muppets creator Jim Henson, the slug belongs to the sacoglossa
Eyes’ kind of way and have gone almost full-blown cannibal,” said Patrick Krug, professor

Titanis walleri Quick Facts Common Name: Waller’s terror bird Titanis walleri belongs to the family Phorusrhacidae, an extinct group of Tertiary birds otherwise known only from South America. Titanis is the only confirmed member from North America. They were large, predatory, flightless bi
Brodkorb was then a Professor of Biology at the University of Florida and an expert