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

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

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 ...

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

White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA in their nuclei and the DNA in their mitochondria. Until now, scientists have pointed to the migration patterns of great whites to explain the ...

Global unprovoked shark bites returned to near-average levels in 2025, following a sharp reduction the year prior. There was a total of 65 unprovoked shark bites worldwide in 2025, slightly less than ...

The Calusa may have been the only ancient people in North America who established a kingdom without practicing agriculture. Their sophistication and fierceness enabled them to resist Spanish ...

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 ...

hameleons’ wandering eyes have fascinated and puzzled scientists since the days of ancient Greece. Now, after millennia of study, modern imaging has revealed the secret of their nearly 360-degree view ...

Like all other snakes, sea snakes shed their skin as they grow. But because they live near the surface of the open ocean, they don’t have the benefit of removing their old skin by slithering against a ...

The Sunshine State’s iconic wildlife includes the American alligator, the Florida panther, the scrub jay and the manatee. But some species unique to Florida are less familiar, like the ultra-rare blue ...

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 ...