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Stroll through this 6,400-square-foot screened, outdoor enclosure with tropical plants and hundreds of living butterflies. Learn More...

UF Bat Houses

View streaming videos of UF's bat colony.

For the first time, view live bats online inside and outside the UF Bat House and Bat Barn. Learn More...

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Spring Public Programs Brochure Now Online

To increase our sustainability efforts the Museum is no longer printing its seasonal Public Programs brochure. There are two new formats available. Learn More...

Science Stories

Science Stories is an ongoing series featuring Florida Museum natural science research.

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New study documents evidence of mimicry in caterpillars (12/2011) Exactly 150 years ago, Henry Walter Bates described mimicry based on his observations of adult butterflies in the Amazon, thus contributing key...
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Museum researcher uses DNA bar coding to improve tropical butterfly classification (11/2011) When Charles Darwin journeyed to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s, he collected some mysterious birds that later helped shape his theory of evolution by...
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Florida's invasive amphibian and reptile problem leads world (11/2011) Most people in Florida don't realize when they see an animal if it's native or non-native and unfortunately, quite a few of them don't belong here and can cause harm...
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Scientists name new ancient crocodile relative from land of Titanoboa (10/2011) Sixty-five million years ago, when a mass extinction wiped out dinosaurs, flying reptiles, large swimming reptiles and many other marine animals, few survivors...

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