Tag Archives: Florida Museum of Natural History

A look at the setup of the most-complete cast of a T. rex, now showing at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

John Raymond Henry's "Big Max" is joining "Alachua" on the University of Florida campus.

Efforts to conserve the atala, a near-endangered butterfly species, has led to an ongoing project conducted at the Florida Museum of Natural History to study and conserve its habitat.

The Florida Museum of Natural History will host its eighth annual Butterflyfest this weekend. Entertainment at Butterflyfest will include live performances, workshops, and engaging challenges for visitors to participate in. Jaret Daniels, Interim Director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, said that Butterflyfest helps to educate the public on its …

Santa Fe College gained one of the largest geological collections in North Florida for its natural history exhibit. The exhibit contains petrified wood, dinosaur fossils, a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite and other various minerals in over 24 glass display cases.

Ariana Agrios, 17, organized a campaign to sponsor a special screening of "Girl Rising" in Gainesville. The movie was created for the 10x10 act, which promotes education of girls worldwide.

Between the 1960s and 1980s, the northern map turtle population significantly decreased. Two local experts studied the population and were recently published in Volume three of Copeia, a publication pertaining to fish, reptiles and amphibians.

A video round-up of local, state and national stories for readers in North Central Florida.

The fossil remains of a 40-foot species of crocodile nicknamed "Turtle Chomper" arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History Friday.

The Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida Office of Sustainability are screening the award-winning documentary "The Clean Bin Project" at 7 p.m. Wednesday