Science Stories Archive
Archived Stories - Expeditions
(12/2007) As one approaches the plantation along the north coast from Nassau there are eight stone buildings that served as the homes for Wylly’s married slaves. These buildings are in relatively good condition, although their roofs have deteriorated. Next,...
(11/2007) Last season, nearly 220 complete skeletons were excavated from Haile 7G – some encased in plaster jackets, and some wrapped in protective tissues – and transported to the Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology division, where they will...
(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...
(4/2007) Florida Museum ornithologists David Steadman and Andrew Kratter turned up the surprising new discovery on a collecting expedition in the Solomon Islands. Theirs is the first frogmouth from these islands to be caught by scientists in more than 100 years...
(02/2007) A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just before abandoning the failed mining operation in 1498...
(02/2007) ewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine's fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of...
(09/2006) As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked forward to a good harvest. They sure weren't thinking about rhinoceroses...
(06/2006) In 426 AD, a noble we now know as K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Great Sun First Quetzal Macaw), arrived in the Copán Valley of Honduras, Central America, and founded a dynasty of Maya kings that endured for over 400 years. Where Yax Ku'k Mo originally traveled...