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Collecting seashells on the beach is a wildly popular hobby here in Florida. Beyond the sometimes exquisite beauty of these shells, they tell incredible stories of life in our oceans. Scientists and amateur collectors alike study shells and the animals that create them to better understand our natur
large contributions to the Florida Museum from his own private collection: The man
The nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, is a medium-size, armored mammal that is mostly nocturnal and lives in a great deal of the Americas. It is fairly common throughout Florida except for the Keys, Everglades and Big Cypress swamp. 1: They come in quadruplets. Nine-banded armadillos ne
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The Florida Museum asked its members to share their most beloved natural history treasures for an online exhibition. Enjoy a few of their submissions below! If you’d like to submit an object to be included in the exhibition, please send a photo wit
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The Nazca people of Peru painted with incredible detail and many colors, resulting in beautiful pottery. The central figure on this small bowl is a fox deity, known in ancient Peruvian religion as the animal counterpart of the moon. Summary Polychrome Ceramic Bowl Made by Nazca people, Peru Da
the moon, for the Incas said they could see a fox on the moon, much like we see a man
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
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his
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Coral ardisia in Florida Scientific name: Ardisia crenata 1: It’s a beautiful troublemaker. Coral ardisia was first offered at a commercial nursery in the U.S. in 1825, and in Florida by 1896. It’s a hardy evergreen plant that grows to about three feet tall (sometimes six feet tall!), with a
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There are 13 species of bats that live in Florida. All of the bat species that live in Florida are insectivores, meaning they eat a lot of moths, flies, wasps, ants, mosquitoes and more. They can eat their body weight in bugs every night! The most common species living in these bat houses is the Br
The bats form colonies (from as few as 50 to many thousands) in man-made structures