Caribbean Monk Seal
Caribbean Monk Seals were last seen in the 1950s, in part because people overhunted them for oil and overfished their…
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Animal Remains: Warm Period
Archaeological sites can provide clues to past climate change, including warm periods with increased storm activity. These remains provide evidence…
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Miocene Megatoothed Shark
This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, located in the front…
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Ancient Great White Shark
Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, which rarely preserves in the fossil record. Gordon Hubbell has perhaps the world’s largest…
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World’s Largest Pill Bug
The World’s Largest Pill Bug, a crustacean distantly related to shrimp and crabs, lives in deep waters around the world,…
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Van Hyning Cockle Shell
Van Hyning became the Museum’s first director in 1914, and ran it virtually unassisted for 29 years. He started the…
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Squat Lobsters
Invertebrates are poorly known, even colorful Squat Lobsters. Many of these brightly colored animals remain undescribed by scientists – a…
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Segmented Worm
Chaetopterus pump water through their parchment tube and filter small plankton through a mucus net they hold. Their tube is…
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Sea Cucumbers
Sea Cucumbers come in all shapes and sizes, and play an important role in marine ecosystems by recycling nutrients. Unfortunately,…
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Sclerosponge
Scientists study ancient climate using “natural archives” such as ice and sediment cores, tree rings and certain animal remains. Sclerosponges…
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