Museum Collections 🧺 Seminole and Miccosukee Baskets Baskets are from material like cane, palmetto, palm leaves, and sweetgrass and includes pack, envelope, berry, sieve, and coiled sweetgrass baskets. The collection covers ~150 years of history: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sflarch/ethnog…

Bro has a very clear logic I am shocked 😭

Museum Collections 🐈 Fossil Meow Jaguars first dispersed to N. America across the Bering Land Bridge in the Pleistocene and were much larger than those living today in Central and South America. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb… Featured Species: Panthera onca Specimen: # UF 14765

“These butterflies have puzzled and exasperated lepidopterists, taxonomists and museum curators for centuries, including me personally for the last three decades,” said Keith Willmott, a curator at our McGuire Center. 🦋🧬🔬 Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/genome…

貝殻の裏って美しいですよね。 よく浜辺に落ちてるやつです。

さっき製本・発送完了の通知が届きました。予定通りに明後日23日の大手町インセクトフェアで並べられる見込みです。A4版カラー40ページ 1500円。

綺麗に印刷されていて、ほっとしました

#ICYMI 🐓🦟📉 Collaboration under a FLORIDA Research Opportunity Seed Fund brings clarity to decades of data on Florida's West Nile outbreaks and forecasting. Sentinel chickens, mosquito-borne illnesses and an informatics pipeline: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/diseas…

Online Exhibit 🏺 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Feature: Colonoware Pitcher "This pitcher was made using traditional Native American manufacturing techniques, but is in a European form [...] blending cultures & cultural practices." With Gifford Waters: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…

Museum Resource 🦣 National Fossil Day Our guide to some of the intriguing animals from Florida's history as well as prominent fossil dig sites is popular with students, educators, and amateur & professional paleontologists. Fossil Species of Florida floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb…

Pineapple Sage | Salvia elegans purchased Florida Museum butterfly plant sale proved to be a great nectar source for local butterflies. This morning, front yard: Gulf Fritillary and Cloudless Sulphur.

Spinybacked Orbweaver, Gasteracantha cancriformis, from today's dog walk.

Online Exhibit 🖤 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Feature: Great Auk Bones (Pinguinus impennis) The last Great Auks lived on Funk Island off Newfoundland, where they were wiped out by sailors in 1844. 🎧 Listen and read more with David Steadman: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…

We often imagine the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621, but the nation’s real first Thanksgiving took place >50 years earlier in Florida. Spanish soldiers, sailors & settlers feasted w/ Native Americans after a Mass of Thanksgiving. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/before…

#ICYMI Scientist Spotted 🦣 Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets Watch: bbc.com/reel/video/p0m… Our paleontologist Advait Jukar talked to BBC about fossils preserved in our springs & how they help researchers understand our past and present biodiversity.

Turkey wasn't the only bird visiting us today.

A slice of apple discarded along the trail attracted some trap jaw ants, #San_Felasco

Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974. Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-fl…