Alachua County turned out big for the recent global iNaturalist Challenge to find and photograph plants and animals, earning a top-tier position in the world and spotting 1,887 species. About 400 ...

The number of peer-reviewed studies using iNaturalist data has surged more than tenfold in the past five years, new research shows. Reading time 3 minutes With a smartphone in hand, anyone can be a ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

Wildflowers are blooming, trees are leafing out, and millions of birds are migrating across the continent. Despite a ...

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...

Dog vomit slime mold earned its name for a reason, and it was definitely one of the more unusual among the 1,771 different forms of life photographed in Alachua County as part of the global ...

Users submit “observations” of an individual organism they have encountered in the wild to the iNaturalist app on their phone or to the organization’s website. Observations typically include one or ...