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Megalodon

Largest Shark that Ever Lived

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Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida Cultural Plaza
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710

Science + Research News

Nov 5, 2020

Earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue found in ‘weird and wonderful’ extinct amphibians
Oct 29, 2020

NSF grants help Florida Museum digitize marine invertebrates, rare land snails
Oct 21, 2020

Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium
Oct 1, 2020

Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes

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