Science Stories Archive
Archived Stories - Biodiversity and Conservation
(01/2008) Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts. Our researchers recently concluded...
(01/2008) A Florida Museum of Natural History herpetologist searching for scientific causes of the so-far-unexplained giant hellbender salamander decline in the U.S. said that we can rule out flooding in many habitats, but that both illegal and scientific collecting of the species may...
(10/2007) It’s a mammoth job, setting out to document all the butterflies of South America’s tropical Andean cordillera...But Florida Museum of Natural History butterfly researcher Keith Willmott and his colleagues are relishing the task...
(07/2007) Gustav Paulay, a curator of invertebrate zoology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is participating in several large-scale marine biodiversity surveys to find and document as many existing invertebrate species as possible, before they disappear forever...
(05/2007) The Herbarium at the Florida Museum of Natural History is run jointly by the Museum and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Including the associated fossil plant collection, it houses about 500,000 vascular plants, moss and lichen...