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Photograph of a black background with various brightly colored marine worms.

Life on Earth

100 new ribbon worm species and counting

June 10, 2025

Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in…
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Life on Earth

Paper addresses natural history collections’ role in pandemic preparedness

June 3, 2025

Natural history collections contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disease outbreaks that could turn into a…
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Two people stand at the front of a classroom next to a projection screen.

Education Research

New study examines informal educators’ self-efficacy in facilitating youth civic engagement for the environment

May 29, 2025

A new article investigating the self-efficacy of informal educators in leading youth civic engagement projects has been published in the…
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Photograph of sloth fossils from multiple species aligned next to each other to show the difference in size.

Evolution

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong

May 22, 2025

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane,…
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Photograph of seagrass meadow. Half of the photo is underwater and half is above. The sun is near the center of the image and casts a bright sheen on the sky and water.

Florida Biodiversity

Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida’s largest remaining seagrass bed

May 15, 2025

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine…
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Evolution

A plant you’ve never heard of can do what scientists once thought impossible

May 13, 2025

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring molecules — the same kind that astronomers have found in…
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Photograph of the front-half of a black and white mottled lizard, viewed from the side and with its tongue sticking out.

Life on Earth

From prehistoric resident to runaway pet: First tegu fossil found in the U.S.

May 12, 2025

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the…
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Photograph of fern leaf.

Technology & Data

Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants

May 7, 2025

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web…
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Illustration of a sebecid standing over its prey, a ground sloth. Snails, turtles, and crocodilians are visible in the surroundings.

Life on Earth

Giant croclike carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean

April 30, 2025

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in…
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Photograph of the leaves of a tree up close.

Life on Earth

Introduced trees are becoming more common in the eastern United States, while native diversity declines

April 21, 2025

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a…
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