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Jonathan Bloch

fossil sea cow skull seen from side

Life on Earth

20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America’s oldest marine mammal

February 18, 2019

Steven Manchester didn’t set out to discover Central America’s oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants….Read More

3D scan of a jaw

Evolution

Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia

November 29, 2018

About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate…Read More

Bloch in the vertebrate paleontology collection

Hires & Promotions

Jonathan Bloch appointed chair of department of natural history

October 8, 2018

Jonathan Bloch has been appointed chair of the Florida Museum of Natural History department of natural history. In the new…Read More

scientist Natasha Vitek kneels on hill to dig for fossils

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum doctoral student wins $15,000 scholarship

August 23, 2018

The Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood (P.E.O.) has awarded a $15,000 scholarship to Natasha Vitek, a doctoral student in vertebrate paleontology…Read More

grooming claw fossil and nail fossil atop human fingernail

Evolution

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

June 20, 2018

Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we…Read More

Cuban crocodile fossil skull

Collections

NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils

May 4, 2018

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a $500,000 collections grant from the National Science Foundation to improve online…Read More

A gopher tortoise coming out of its burrow.

Evolution

Odd couple: Florida mouse, gopher tortoise have been rooming for centuries

October 3, 2017

The Florida mouse and gopher tortoise have been in a serious relationship for thousands of years. Theirs is a commensal…Read More

hand holding fossils

Community Science

Calling aspiring fossil hunters: Levy County excavation opens to volunteers Oct. 5

September 28, 2017

Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil…Read More

overview of digging activity at fossil site

Fieldwork

News: Saber-Tooth Cat Skull Find in Montbrook

February 6, 2017

A volunteer at our Montbrook dig site unearthed what appears to be a 5-million-year- old saber-tooth cat skull. Volunteer Bill…Read More

people walking into dig site with buckets

Evolution

Searching for red pandas in an elephant graveyard

January 15, 2017

Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of…Read More

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