Florida Museum of Natural History

Expanded development and lack of prescribed burns have been hurting scrub jay habitats throughout Florida.

This past year, the Florida Museum of Natural History completed three Notices of Inventory Completion and one Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items for the national NAGPRA program.

Hurricane Ian struck Southwest Florida in the same place where Florida’s powerful Calusa natives lived over 2,000 years ago. From dealing with sea level fluctuations to a massive hurricane around A.D. 300, their fishing and building adaptations can teach us about dealing with coastal change.

Climate change threatens not only the future of Florida’s barrier islands, but all they hold about the past.

The Florida Wildlife Conservation Committee has worked with a Manatee County community to remove the goldline snakehead fish from a local pond.

By Associated PressAn almost 14-foot (4-meter) jawbone believed to be from a right whale is now in a museum after a boater spotted it on a barrier island…

Experts say 2015 saw a record-setting 98 unprovoked shark attacks worldwide, including 30 in Florida alone.The Florida Museum of Natural History released…