The man who founded the Florida Museum of Natural History more than 100 years ago had a clear purpose: to...
Most spiders don’t see in color. Not so for jumping spiders, tiny show-offs who flaunt their vivid stripes and fluffy...
University of Florida history Professor Jack E. Davis has made a career out of writing about big environmental topics. He...
University of Florida entomologist Jiri Hulcr loves each of the 6,000 species of bark beetles, and he wants you to...
You’ve probably heard of probiotics’ role in creating a healthy gut biome. But what if they could help coral reefs,...
DNA “fingerprints” left behind by sea turtles offer scientists a simple, powerful way of tracking the health and whereabouts of...
E.O. Wilson once referred to invertebrates as “the little things that run the world,” without whom “the human species [wouldn’t]...
When UF evolutionary biologist Gareth Fraser gives a talk titled “Why sharks are the future of dentistry” at dental conferences,...
Hammerhead sharks are the strange-looking ones. They look like someone grabbed their skull by the eye sockets and stretched their...
Pam Soltis has spent her adult life studying the Earth’s living things, first from the perspective of plants and in recent years on a broader scale as she and her husband, Doug, have worked to create a “Tree of Life” that organizes and illustrates how all living things interact.
A University of Florida geophysicist discusses the strange changes in shifting ground during a long-term study of the 1960 Chile earthquake.
Jamie Ellis, an entomologist at UF/IFAS and lifelong beekeeper, answered questions on Reddit AMA about the honey bees he is in charge of at the UF Honey Bee Lab.