Florida Museum

@FloridaMuseum

The Florida Museum of Natural History inspires people to care about life on Earth. Located on the @UF campus, we are also the state museum.

Gainesville, Florida floridamuseum.ufl.edu Joined August 2009

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Museum Collections 🐌 Invertebrate Paleontology Galleries
From crabs to sea biscuits, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection — with photos: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/ga…

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Species: Littoraria irrorata
Specimen: # UF 22460
Location: St. Johns Co., FL

close up of a small rounded snail shell that is old as if it's a fossil and it has numbers written on inner lip above a 1.79 cm measuring bar

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Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Florida Museum and Xerces Society researchers are tracking monarch butterflies with small, solar-powered radio transmitters—about the size and weight of a grain of rice—to unlock monarch migration mysteries.
🦋 Story:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/tiny-t…

A man uses a digital caliper to measure the wing of a butterfly held in his hand.

Hands holding a smartphone to take a close-up photo of a monarch butterfly being held carefully between two fingers.

fingers are pointing to a paper holding a row of small electronic chips with a thin antenna on each

A monarch butterfly flies above a person's hands holding an open white mesh butterfly net.

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Museum life 📦🦋 We're only weeks away from reopening the Florida Museum and these pupae will transform into hundreds of butterflies for our Butterfly Rainforest exhibit to help inspire and educate our visitors. Blog:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/…

Reopening on Monday, Nov 23, 2026!

two people are working in a nearly empty lab space behind a big glass window with rows of empty shelves on either side in a museum space

ten very shiny insect chrysalis are slightly curved and seem to have faint dark line on their metallic gold bodies

a pile of smooth, vibrant jade green objects could be caterpillar chrysalis with little knobs on the ends where they were attached

close up of a pile of mottled brown cocoons that have thin lines like zippers down their angular bodies

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Museum Collections 🐊 Olsen’s Alligator
Browse our fossil vertebrate collections in a searchable database with photos and map:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/prof…

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Species: Alligator olseni
Specimen: # UF/VP 206718
Osteoderm from an extinct alligator species: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb…

an irregular shield shaped bone is shown next to a one inch ruler. The surface is covered in smooth pits and has a soft ridge down the middle

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Museum Collections 🪝 Faunal Fishhook Gallery
Learn the terminology of fishhooks, browse the gallery and have a look into how our researchers investigate the cultural history of our state through these rare discoveries:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/flarch/collect…

a very dark brown hook has a fully oval shaped body and is made from wood or bone or some organic material

a light bone colored hook has a shallow bend area and straight shank, and looks to be made from bone

a brown hook with a straight shank and a very thick area at the lower cup of its bend seems to be made of wood or bone