Key Points Archaeologists have debated for decades over how Mississippian-style pottery ended up in Tampa Bay, an area long ...

Key points Eleven undergraduate students at the University of Florida are the first to assemble the pignut hickory tree ...

In productive marine environments, a square meter of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands of isolated and interconnected tunnels through which crawl and writhe a cornucopia of clams, ...

Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine ...

If you’ve driven down two-lane highways in rural parts of North Florida recently, you may have noticed a spate of new signs that designate the grassy knolls bordering the asphalt as wildflower areas.

Academic Year 2026-2027 Join the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) in helping inspire the next generation of scientists and environmental stewards! TESI is hiring a 12-month graduate ...

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the ...

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the sweltering, rain-swept Malay and Indochina peninsulas as well as the islands of ...

Scientists have published a broad review of what they’ve learned about moths and butterflies over the last few decades. Special attention is given to pivotal moments during the ~300 million-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, the Everglades was a much different place than it is today. At one time, people could go and see wildlife of all sizes, but today something is missing. Many mammals used to call the ...