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The Florida Museum of Natural History inspires people to care about life on Earth. Located on the @UF campus, we are also the state museum.

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Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day! Science Up Close: Incredible Insects All about insects & entomology! Check our exhibit schedule for featured #UFBugs scientists in the live lab! In collab. with UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology 🐜🐜🐜 🪲 Exhibit info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…

Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day!

Science Up Close: Incredible Insects
All about insects & entomology! Check our exhibit schedule for featured #UFBugs scientists in the live lab!

In collab. with <a href="/UFEntNem/">UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology</a> 🐜🐜🐜

🪲 Exhibit info:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…
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Exploring Museum Collections 🐚 Pretty Volute From corals to shrimps, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection, with photos and maps: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/ga… Featured Species: Scaphella floridana Specimen: # UF 19331 Locality: Palm Beach Co., FL

Exploring Museum Collections 🐚 Pretty Volute
From corals to shrimps, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection, with photos and maps:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/ga…

Featured
Species: Scaphella floridana
Specimen: # UF 19331
Locality: Palm Beach Co., FL
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Educator Resource 🐎 Fossil Horses Learn about paleontology and evolution by exploring the rich fossil record of horses! Horses originated in N. America >55 million years ago and roamed the continent before becoming extinct about 10,000 years ago. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fossil-horses/

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Museum Resource 🐍 Florida Snake ID Guide Easy visual ID and searchable tool for learning about our state's snakes including habitat, range & diet. Featured: Rough Greensnake (Opheodrys aestivus) Full info and explore more: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-… NON-VENOMOUS

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Toxic relationship 💃 Bella moths use a noxious plant toxin as an aromatic calling card, which they use to repel predators and attract mates. Scientists are getting closer to understanding how they do it. Story + study: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bella-…

Toxic relationship 💃 Bella moths use a noxious plant toxin as an aromatic calling card, which they use to repel predators and attract mates. Scientists are getting closer to understanding how they do it.

Story + study:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bella-…
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Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida Explore our state's freshwater fish species and then see our collection records, photos and map. Shown: Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus), marine invader to Florida's freshwaters 🔗 Info & browse: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/…

Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida
Explore our state's freshwater fish species and then see our collection records, photos and map.

Shown: Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus), marine invader to Florida's freshwaters
🔗 Info &amp; browse:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/…
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How does one species become two? Yash Sondhi (Yash Sondhi) and team caught evolution in the act when they observed differences in a gene that regulates circadian rhythms in a group of moths that have become separated in time. ☀️ 🌙 Story & study: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moths-…

How does one species become two? Yash Sondhi (<a href="/Mothyash/">Yash Sondhi</a>) and team caught evolution in the act when they observed differences in a gene that regulates circadian rhythms in a group of moths that have become separated in time. ☀️ 🌙

Story &amp; study:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moths-…
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Museum Resource 🏺 Caribbean ceramic ID Chicoid often has incising (w/ very clean, even lines) and adornos (which can be animalistic or humanoid). Effigy vessels are common. More: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/blo… Emily Kracht (@emweasels) created info cards for our Ceramic Tech Lab.

Museum Resource 🏺 Caribbean ceramic ID
Chicoid often has incising (w/ very clean, even lines) and adornos (which can be animalistic or humanoid). Effigy vessels are common. More:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/blo…

Emily Kracht (@emweasels) created info cards for our Ceramic Tech Lab.
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“The vine that ate the South!” Kudzu is one of the best-known weeds in the U.S.: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/five-f… While kudzu is not nearly as common or widespread in Florida as it is in neighboring states, it has been documented from over 40 Florida counties across the state.

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Exhibit Spotlight 🐗 Florida Oligocene This #SciArt in our Florida Fossils exhibit helps to illustrate what Florida might have looked like as the sea levels dropped and animals migrated to this newly exposed land. 🗝️ Art + key and more: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/… #FossilFriday

Exhibit Spotlight 🐗 Florida Oligocene
This #SciArt in our Florida Fossils exhibit helps to illustrate what Florida might have looked like as the sea levels dropped and animals migrated to this newly exposed land.
🗝️ Art + key and more:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/…
#FossilFriday
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#ICYMI Scientist Spotted 🎧 Our Steve Manchester was a guest on the In Defense of Plants podcast to talk about the walnut family, fossil seeds and his career as a paleobotanist: indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2024/8… 🌰🌰🐿️

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Last chance to check out our special exhibit all about insects & entomology! Science Up Close: Incredible Insects Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day! Featuring live lab scientists in collaboration with UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology 🐜🐜🐜 #UFBugs 🪲 Exhibit info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…

Last chance to check out our special exhibit all about insects &amp; entomology! 

Science Up Close: Incredible Insects
Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day!
Featuring live lab scientists in collaboration with <a href="/UFEntNem/">UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology</a> 🐜🐜🐜 #UFBugs

🪲 Exhibit info:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…
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Sept 7 🌻 Our Daniels Lab scientists invite you to join them at the library to help support pollinator conservation. Pick up a free plant! Where: Millhopper Library Branch When: Sept 7, 12-3 p.m. What: One free plant until we're out! Full info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/plant-fo…

Sept 7 🌻 Our Daniels Lab scientists invite you to join them at the library to help support pollinator conservation. Pick up a free plant!

Where: Millhopper Library Branch
When: Sept 7, 12-3 p.m.
What: One free plant until we're out!

Full info:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/plant-fo…
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Online Exhibit 🌴 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Feature: Fossil Palm (Sabalites apalachicolensis) Fossil plants from Alum Bluff represent a time when Florida’s climate was warmer and sea level was higher. 🎧 More with Terry Lott: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…

Online Exhibit 🌴 Rare, Beautiful &amp; Fascinating

Feature: Fossil Palm (Sabalites apalachicolensis)
Fossil plants from Alum Bluff represent a time when Florida’s climate was warmer and sea level was higher.
🎧 More with Terry Lott: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…
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#ICYMI ☀️🌙 Rather than being separated by a physical barrier, members of a species can become separated in time. Scientists caught evolution in the act when they observed differences in a gene that regulates circadian rhythms in a group of moths. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moths-…

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Descended from the South American Saladoid people, the Taíno flourished across much of the Caribbean for ~1,000 years before the arrival of Europeans and were one of the region’s most developed cultures. Taíno origin story comes to life: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/taino-… @Ted_ED: 🎞️

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Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller's life and legacy as a renown lepidopterist and a mentor. 🦋 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rememb… Alongside publishing numerous papers and books, Jackie is appreciated for drawing people into her world of butterfly scientific research.

Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller's life and legacy as a renown lepidopterist and a mentor.
🦋 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rememb…

Alongside publishing numerous papers and books, Jackie is appreciated for drawing people into her world of butterfly scientific research.
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Museum Resource 🐸🎶 Florida Frog Calls Learn to ID your croaking, grunting and singing amphibian neighbors by their unique sounds with our audio guide to Florida's frogs (including invasive Cuban treefrogs): floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-herps…

Museum Resource 🐸🎶 Florida Frog Calls
Learn to ID your croaking, grunting and singing amphibian neighbors by their unique sounds with our audio guide to Florida's frogs (including invasive Cuban treefrogs):
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-herps…
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Exploring Museum Collections 🌿 Red Buckeye This small Florida-native tree has clusters of pretty trumpet flowers 👉 but the seed pods are poisonous to humans. More with UF/IFAS: gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-a… FLAS Herbarium collection: Species: Aesculus pavia Specimen: # FLAS 224607

Exploring Museum Collections 🌿 Red Buckeye
This small Florida-native tree has clusters of pretty trumpet flowers 👉 but the seed pods are poisonous to humans. More with UF/IFAS: gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-a…

<a href="/FLAS_herb/">FLAS Herbarium</a> collection:
Species: Aesculus pavia
Specimen: # FLAS 224607