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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
Florida lacks in dinosaurs, it abundantly makes up for in just about everything else

Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which like
the dinosaurs, it had given rise to an incredible diversity of life found nowhere else

The Florida Museum’s mission is inspiring people to care about life on Earth, which includes nature. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we can start by appreciating the natural world right in our own backyards. Using Museum resources, spend a day, or an hour, learning about Florida’s b
Once you’ve got the hang of this, expand your horizons to see what else you can find

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
find a stain in one of the corners of the units that didn’t seem to match anything else

An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually a lizard. The new species, named Oculudentavis naga in honor of the Naga people of Myanmar and India, is represente
While Myanmar’s amber deposits are a treasure trove of fossil lizards found nowhere else

I have always loved to read, but it is a pastime that I seldom find time for these days. As my schedule this summer began filling up—classes, interning, tutoring, general life stuff, etc. I realized, much to my dismay, this summer was not going to serve as an opportunity to catch up on the titles
the same geological epoch we exist in now, the Holocene—is it weird for anyone else

F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service have trekked diligently through forest preserves on Key Largo in search of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly, more often than not coming back with more mosquit
hardwood hammocks, hyperdiverse forests that harbor several rare species found nowhere else

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added a new location to its known range: Ocala National Forest. They also confirmed the insect feeds on a second, but highly endangered, host plant. Researchers made th
The region harbors plant and animal species found nowhere else, but ranks among the

In his book, “The Immense Journey,” anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, “If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water.” There are few people who seemed to have grasped this truth as completely as Harry George Lee of Jacksonville, Florida, a physician, globe-trotter, researcher and an av
do not follow it as a vocation but instead are forced or choose to do something else

Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of its nose. Some of the discoveries being made at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s new dig site in Williston, Florida, are odd and seemingly out of place, to say the least. Animal
The museum scientists have opened the site to UF students and anyone else over 15