One of the most amazing phenomena in nature is the annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, southward from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains to overwintering sites in the mountains of southern Mexico.
Visit the pyramids at Teotihuacán, one of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican
J.C. Dickinson, Jr. Hall, home to the Museum since 1970, now exclusively houses collections and research activities. Dickinson Hall is visited mostly by scientists and university students engaged in collections-based natural history research. THIS BUILDING IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Visitors must m
Americans — Southeastern United States temple mounds from the front and Mesoamerican pyramids
Free admission Journey through a South Florida estuary and learn why they are one of the richest ecosystems on Earth and how they have supported people for thousands of years, including the powerful Calusa who once controlled all of South Florida. Exhibit Blog Spotlight
People lived and fished on Florida’s Gulf coast long before the first pyramids were
Shiny amber jewelry and a mucky Florida swamp have given scientists a window into an ancient ecosystem that could be anywhere from 15 million to 130 million years old. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin made the landmark discovery t
they form relationships with higher organisms, making them the foundation of the pyramid
See all Environmental Archaeology Science Research Articles Other Media Outlets How turkeys got from Mayan temples to your Thanksgiving dinner table The Washington Post November 25, 2015 Washington Post: Maya Turkeys and Thanksgiving Beyond the temples, ancient bones reveal the lives of the
Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes.… Oct 4, 2018 Nicole Cannarozzi
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
years, out-of-towners made trips to the island, where shell mounds and a stepped pyramid
Ants offer a window into the scale of the invasive species problem and Florida hosts 12 of the worst invasive ant species worldwide.
several species of native ants: the Florida carpenter ant (Camponotus floridanus), pyramid
As a University of Florida graduate student, one of Erin Thornton’s first assignments was to identify turkey bones from an ancient Mayan archaeological site in Guatemala. Determined to please her adviser, Thornton thoroughly examined the features of the bones, which dated to the Late Preclass
find it especially interesting that these turkey bones are in this very special pyramid
