Every day, without even realizing it, you come into contact with geophytes. By just walking around the grocery store, you pass by dozens of these plants — from onions and potatoes to amaryllis and tulips. But what exactly is a geophyte, and why are they important? 1: What makes a geophyte a geo
Facts Get to know Florida’s fossil pearls Five Facts Five Facts: Portuguese man-of-war
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I hope this post finds you safe and healthy. Here at the Florida Museum, things have been shut down for a while, and it has given us a great opportunity to tackle all the parts of our job that our job prevents us from doing. Now that we are not out in the field, or physically in the museum answeri
feelings be known via an insistent beeping which Rob heard one morning on his way to man
Few people today are aware that a century and a half before there was a San Francisco in California, a San Francisco mission existed in northern Florida. San Antonio, San Diego, Santa Fe–all were missions that once served Florida Indians, just as missions with the same names were home to Indians in
Nearer the missions Indians worked to repair roads, build stream crossings, and man
James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” premieres today and among the colorful cast is the menacing yet endearing King Shark. The DC Comics character first appeared in Superboy Vol 4 #0 in October 1994. However, the character’s origin comes directly from native Hawaiian mythology. Nanaue, or King Shark, is
The Shark-Man, Nanaue, www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hft/hft27.htm. “Home.”
After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched species profiles by Aaron Woodruff, collection manager for vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The book also includes stunning illustrations by pale
Tartarocyoon cazanavei is an extinct bear-dog whose name was inspired by Tartaro, a man-eating
1565 August 28 – Sighted land of Florida on St. Augustine’s feast day September 7 – Captains Morales and Patiño disembark with 30 men to dig an entrenchment to protect people and supplies while the site of the fort is more carefully chosen September 8 – Menéndez formally claims Florida, u
Engraving by Theodore de Bry based on drawing by Jacques LeMoyne Timucua man, ca
Ah, the last day of camp! Seems a little anticlimactic without all the tears, exchanging of parent’s phone numbers, and feet dragging out of the museum but the sense of accomplishment I have for the campers and our hardworking undergraduate interns still lingers. As I said in the last post, virtu
open mind and flexibility when it comes to redirecting a group of students” and oh man
