Steven Manchester didn’t set out to discover Central America’s oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants.
Manchester, curator of paleob...
About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate known as Teilhardina first curled its fingers ar...
Jonathan Bloch has been appointed chair of the Florida Museum of Natural History department of natural history.
In the new role, Bloch plans to work with the...
The Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood (P.E.O.) has awarded a $15,000 scholarship to Natasha Vitek, a doctoral student in vertebrate paleontology...
Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an ev...
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a $500,000 collections grant from the National Science Foundation to improve online accessibility of ver...
The Florida mouse and gopher tortoise have been in a serious relationship for thousands of years.
These upper and lower jaws are from a modern Florida mouse...
Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil site in Lev...
A volunteer at our Montbrook dig site unearthed what appears to be a 5-million year old saber-tooth cat skull. Volunteer Bill Buhi and vertebrate paleontology c...
It takes many hours to carefully uncover a fossil and prepare it to be brought to the lab. Florida Museum photo by Jeff Gage
Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone...
