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tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else
Welcome to the Florida Museum blog, a source for news from around the Museum, as well as content curated from other Museum blogs. We celebrate the extant and extinct species of Florida and the world. We also look at the behind-the-scenes challenges and excitement of life in a museum and research in
And we want to inspire everyone else to get as excited
More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida’s Gulf Coast to bond over oysters, likely as a means of coping with climate change and social upheaval. Archaeologists’ analysis of present-day Roberts Island, about 50 miles north of
animals, the menu dwindled to oysters and little else
Birds of a feather don’t always flock together: Peer into a forest canopy, and you will likely spot multiple bird species flying and feeding together, a phenomenon most spectacular in the Amazon where 50 species may travel as a unit. But are birds in these mixed flocks cooperating with one another o
“If they stop, everybody else is on edge.
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else
In 1565, more than fifty years before the English landed at Jamestown, Pedro Menéndez de Aviles established the first successful European colony in the United States at St. Augustine, Florida. Archaeologists and historians have been searching for the site of that first settlement since early in the
It was that tradition as much as anything else that
Congratulations to our photographer Kristen Grace for placing in the 2022 Faces of Biology Photo Contest! The competition showcases biological research in its many forms and settings and is sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Society for Integrative and Compara
to staff portraits to public events—and anything else
Free Admission Be immersed in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s collections with a look at 14 high-resolution photographs that showcase rare museum objects not often in public view. Their stories inspire and inform about the state of our natural world, touching on topics like invasive species
has more than 200 plant species that exist nowhere else
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
this diverse mix of species are three found nowhere else
