Through partnership in honoring and sharing Seminole Tribe of Florida heritage, join us at Heartwood Soundstage for a special ...

The Silk Cotton or Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] is one of the largest trees in the American tropics. The tree has played an important role in the spiritual and economic lives of the ...

Get your toddler excited about exploring the great outdoors! Join Florida Museum nature ambassadors for a safe and interactive nature walk on Tot Tuesdays. While our exhibits building is closed, we ...

Positive identification of attacking sharks is very difficult since victims rarely make adequate observations of the attacker during the "heat" of the interaction. Tooth remains are seldom found in ...

Roger Portell, collections director of invertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has retired this month after 42… ...

The exhibits building is temporarily closed due to a large-scale expansion project. The Museum anticipates re-opening in 2026.

Baweka, translated from the Taino language as “Large Northern Basin,” was the name for the Caicos Bank at the time of Columbus. From Abawana (Grand Turk) to Makobisa (West Caicos) the islands ...

A new study on one of the most important remaining artifacts from the Aztec Empire, a 24-ton basalt calendar stone, interprets the stone’s central image as the death of the sun god Tonatiuh during an ...

Volunteer Becky Reichart uses hot glue to connect one of the Burmese python’s 338 vertebrae on tapered wire as part of the rearticulation process.Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Kenneth ...

About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart ...

Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a six-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to ...

The most complete skeleton of this species was found near Lecanto in Citrus County, Florida. It is on permanent display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Modern studies reveal that it was a ...