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Hollow trees host massive moth slumber parties
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2017 ‘average’ year for shark attacks, deaths
Moths with larger hindwings and longer tails are best at deflecting bats
The man behind the world’s largest private shell collection
Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
Awards + Honors
Curator of fishes Larry Page elected fellow of the American Fisheries Society
Volunteer Barbara Toomey wins Katherine Palmer Award
Florida Museum doctoral student receives NSF graduate fellowship
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Winners of 2017 Austin and Bullen Awards announced
New book reveals untold history of pre-colonial Caribbean islands
History Re-written: Christopher Columbus and the cannibals
Mother Sea Turtle
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Five Facts: Megalodon
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Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths
Austin, Bullen 2018 student research award winners named
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Biodiversity
Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil species
New butterfly species named for Field Museum’s Emily Graslie
Plant biologist Pam Soltis receives SURA’s Distinguished Scientist Award
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Butterfly expert Thomas Emmel has died
40 years of friendship, 70,000 specimens: Amateur entomologists donate lifetimes’ worth of butterflies and moths
Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop
NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils
Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes
New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected