Florida Museum scientists engage in research around the world every day, but only a small number of these discoveries are displayed in the public exhibits space. This Science Stories site is an ongoing collection of news articles about Florida Museum natural science research. From collecting expeditions to new discoveries by Museum researchers, Science Stories covers a range of topics for aspiring scientists and curious spectators.
Current Stories
(10/2008) Globally, nearly all sawfish species are declining largely due to coastal habitat threats and over-fishing, but dwindling northern populations of smalltooth sawfish in the Atlantic may get a helping hand...
(09/2008) Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network researchers and citizen scientists document the presence of local butterfly species and their numbers so that scientists and conservationists...
(09/2008) The origins of when flowers managed to harness insects' pollinating power has long been murky. But the new study is the first to pinpoint...
(08/2008) Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the "abominable mystery" of early plant evolution...
(07/2008) The Butterfly Conservation Initiative was created in 2001 to work with federal and state organizations to aid in the conservation of threatened, endangered and vulnerable North American butterflies and the habitats that sustain them...
(07/2008) Time is slowing down—way down—for a select collection of DNA specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History. They are housed in a double-walled cryogenic freezer at minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 320.8 degrees Fahrenheit)...
(06/2008) Tourists who comb Florida's sandy beaches for exotic shells are probably unaware that they're also picking through bits of geologic history. Incalculable numbers of fossilized marine invertebrates pepper the Sunshine State...
(06/2008) Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin made the landmark discovery that prehistoric aquatic critters such as beetles and small crustaceans unwittingly swim into resin flowing down into the water....
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