Benjamin Genter, a senior at the University of Florida, recently received the Henri Seibert Award for best student talk at… ...

Current Personnel Gavin Naylor PhD Program Director Florida Program for Shark Research 352-273-1954 gnaylor@flmnh.ufl.edu Please send all questions and media inquiries to Dr. Naylor Lei Yang PhD ...

University of Florida Academic Year 2026-2027 Join the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) in helping inspire the next generation of scientists and environmental stewards! … Continue ...

North + Central America International Shark Attack Files Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall 1659 Museum Rd PO Box 117800 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7800 352-392-2360 ...

The Museum’s education department offers an array of programs and resources that inspire people to value the biological richness and cultural heritage of our diverse world. Initiatives are designed to ...

Pensacola Incised Pottery Series or Cultural Affiliation: Pensacola; Mississippian Chronology: AD 900 - 1500 Culture Period: Fort Walton Mode of Decoration: Incised (may have punctations) Inclusions ...

A new study on one of the most important remaining artifacts from the Aztec Empire, a 24-ton basalt calendar stone, interprets the stone’s central image as the death of the sun god Tonatiuh during an ...

Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals ...

The Calusa may have been the only ancient people in North America who established a kingdom without practicing agriculture. Their sophistication and fierceness enabled them to resist Spanish ...

White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA in their nuclei and the DNA in their mitochondria. Until now, scientists have pointed to the migration patterns of great whites to explain the ...

Scientists have published a broad review of what they’ve learned about moths and butterflies over the last few decades. Special attention is given to pivotal moments during the ~300 million-year ...