2+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1118+ words) Like all other snakes, sea snakes shed their skin as they grow. But because they live near the surface of the open ocean, they don’t have the benefit of removing their old skin by slithering against a hard surface. Instead,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (394+ words) Five miles off the coast of Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia, a Florida Museum marine biologist was part of a specialized team that pulled off a massive project aboard the OceanXplorer. Gustav Paulay is curator of marine malacology in our invertebrate…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (430+ words) Scientists have discovered that one of the ocean’s most recognizable corals, the iconic “organ pipe coral” — long believed to be a single widespread species — includes at least 15 genetically distinct lineages. Two of these lineages are currently known only from the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1180+ words) Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, reveal the identity of the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1393+ words) Enrollment is currently open, and for the 12 or so students who snag a spot, this summer is sure to be a memorable one. “If you’re deeply curious and reasonably adventurous, I think you might really enjoy this course,” said Gavin…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1200+ words) Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa’s rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and glaciation during the last ice age would probably not have been your first answer or even your last-ditch guess, but…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (25+ words) Thompson Earth Systems Institute Florida Museum of Natural History Thompson Earth Systems Institute Exhibits Building Closed for Renovations...

6+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (800+ words) With their triangular shape and golden-orange wings, the eastern arogos skipper (Atrytone arogos arogos) butterflies seemed to wave down the passing crew of researchers at Herky Huffman/Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area near Orlando, Florida. The insects may be easy…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1573+ words) In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with impressionable minds and big aspirations. But, as Willmott noted, they were “hopelessly inaccurate” in their estimates. More than 30 years later, Willmott,…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (196+ words) The Rainforest Exhibits at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History features many species of Lepidoptera, but perhaps none are as impressive as Attacus atlas, commonly known as the Atlas moth. This gentle…...