Atlantic Devil Ray Mobula hypostoma This smaller eagle ray looks like its cousins, with its diamond-shaped pectoral disc that is twice as wide as it is long, and its dark gray black top and ivory white underside. But the Atlantic devil ray is smaller, growing to only about 48 inches wide, an
distinct that it could not be confused with anything else
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are planning to launch a new app that will allow users to interact with a projection of the Tree of Life designed by internationally renowned artist Naziha Mestaoui. The museum will host a “One Tree, One Planet” event in Powell H
Tree of Life, and hear the heartbeat of everyone else
The number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide decreased last year, tying with 2020 for the fewest number of reported incidents in the last 10 years. According to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File, there were a total of 57 unprovoked bites in 2022, most of which occurred
Florida again had more reported bites than anywhere else
For Florida Museum of Natural History collection manager Rob Robins, biodiversity is something of a family theme. With his father a renowned ichthyologist, his mother an ichthyologist who sacrificed career for family and his wife a wildlife biologist, Robins has always been surrounded with th
of fish that turned me on at some point and nobody else
The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal bones, shells, scales and antlers at archaeological sites. Together, these specimens tell the millennia-long story of how humans have hunted, domesticated and transported animals,
way, ZooArchNet is more of a bridge than anything else
The Randell Research Center (RRC) is a program of the Florida Museum of Natural History, which has conducted research and education programs in southwest Florida since 1983. The RRC has existed since 1996 when Patricia and Donald Randell gifted more than 53 acres of the Pineland archaeological site
including ancient botanical remains found nowhere else
A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
abundantly makes up for in just about everything else
We are grateful to our volunteers who donate their time to help in many different areas throughout the Museum. From assisting in the collections at Dickinson Hall and the McGuire Center to giving exhibit and school group tours, our volunteers are a vital part of our mission. This new series highligh
Manager) Richard Hulbert if I could help with anything else
Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species currently known to exist are considered threatened or endangered at the state or federal level, and nearly all scrub mints grow in areas that are being rapidly developed or converted to
but lost the ability to live just about anywhere else
For a few weeks each year, dozens of people stop their everyday activities to put on clothes they don’t mind getting dirty, drive to the middle of nowhere and dig in the dirt and mud for fossils. Neither professional archaeologists nor paleontologists, the volunteers are like angels for the Flori
work in an area away from the spot where everyone else
