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
(06/2009) A new Florida Museum of Natural History study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly...
(05/2009) Florida Museum of Natural History botanist and herbarium curator Norris Williams has won the Smithsonian Institution's prestigious José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for his 40-year career studying...
(05/2009) The largest snake the world has ever known - as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car - ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million years after the demise of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex...
(04/2009) Participants search for fossils at the Florida Museum of Natural History's 18th Annual Thomas Farm Fossil Dig, which took place this year from March 31 to April 5. The site, located about 45 miles northwest of Gainesville, contains...
(04/2009) Call it a galactic joy ride, but on Oct. 23, 2007, NASA's 120th shuttle mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. with hundreds of thousands of miniscule stowaways stashed inside the...
(03/2009) When it comes to invasive species in South Florida, the black spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis) holds its own. The Central American native isn't imported for the pet trade like the green iguana...
(03/2009) When asked if mountains grow slowly and steadily versus in rapid spurts, most people intuitively gravitate to the "slow and steady" model. Mountains, we are taught, take an incomprehensively...
(03/2009) Contrary to previous evidence, a new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by the Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate...
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