Key points In an article recently published in the journal Evolution & Development, Andrei Sourakov — an expert on ...

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Investigating the Calusa Florida Museum of Natural History Gainesville, FL 32611 352-392-1721 (Research) or 352-846-2000 (Exhibits) ...

Sources: All accidental death information from National Safety Council. Disease death information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Shark fatality data provided by the International ...

From 1513 onward, Spanish and French explorers and would-be colonizers had attempted to establish a permanent European settlement in “the lovely, deadly land of Florida.” It would take more than half ...

The sun was ducking in and out of the clouds on Monday morning as exhibit keepers Ryan and Isabel carried … Continue ...

Common Name: Starry Night Cracker Scientific Name: Hamadryas laodamia Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Biblidinae Tribe: Ageroniini Wingspan: 2.5 to 3.4 in Place of origin: Central & South America ...

For more than 500 years before the arrival of Menéndez, the Timucua people of the St. Augustine area had been living in much the same way as they were in 1565. They were organized as chiefdoms ...

Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States, with all known occurrences in Florida and Texas. Type locality is Santa Fe River 1, Columbia County, Florida. Figure 2. UF 4108, distal tarsometatarsus of ...

Xerces Blue butterflies were last seen in the early 1940s in the San Francisco Bay area. It is one of the first American butterflies to become extinct from habitat loss caused by urban development. In ...

These stout toads are plentiful throughout Florida, but can often be confused with the invasive Cane toad. Southern toads are nocturnal omnivores that come out of their sandy burrows to eat—well, ...

Excavations since 1976 at the Fountain of Youth Park (8-SJ-31) have located what we believe to be the site of the Spanish settlement established by Menendez in 1565. Some features at the site may be ...