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    • Gracile Saber-toothed Cat Skull

    Gracile Saber-toothed Cat

    This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, […]

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    • Terror Bird

    Terror Bird

    This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, […]

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    • Three-toed Transitional Horse
    • Three-toed Transitional Horse

    Three-toed Transitional Horse

    This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, […]

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    • Blunt-snouted Dyrosaurid Skull
    • Blunt-snouted Dyrosaurid Skull
    • Blunt-snouted Dyrosaurid Skull

    Blunt-snouted Dyrosaurid

    This crocodile-like reptile had an unusually short snout, giving it an incredibly powerful bite well adapted […]

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    • Titanoboa Vertebra and Ribs
    • Titanoboa Vertebra and Ribs
    • Titanoboa Vertebra
    • Variety of vertebrae

    Titanoboa

    Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 […]

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    • Cofrin’s Side-necked Turtle
    • Cofrin’s Side-necked Turtle

    Cofrin’s Side-necked Turtle

    This massive fossil is the largest freshwater turtle species found from the Paleocene (66–56 million years […]

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    • Caribbean Monk Seal Bone
    • Caribbean Monk Seal Bone

    Caribbean Monk Seal

    Caribbean Monk Seals were last seen in the 1950s, in part because people overhunted them for […]

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    • Xerces Blue
    • Xerces Blue

    Xerces Blue

    Xerces Blue butterflies were last seen in the early 1940s in the San Francisco Bay area. […]

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    • Hawaiian Snails
    • Achatinella rosea
    • Carelia bicolor
    • Achatinella vittata

    Native Hawaiian Snails

    The Hawaiian Islands once had over 800 different types of land snails. Scientists estimate that nearly […]

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    • Maryland darter
    • Maryland darter
    • Maryland darter
    • Maryland darter
    • Maryland darter

    Maryland Darter

    Biologists discovered the Maryland Darter in 1912 in a creek in Maryland, and the reclusive fish […]

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