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bars of sediment

Evolution

The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions

September 13, 2018

Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and…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

drawer of sack-bearer moth specimens

Life on Earth

Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths

May 31, 2018

Ryan St Laurent, a doctoral student at the Florida Museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, studies an obscure, strange…Read More

people looking at fossils

Education & Outreach

Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop

May 16, 2018

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came…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 scientist poses at a fossil site

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum doctoral student receives NSF graduate fellowship

April 19, 2018

Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral student Rachel Narducci was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Narducci,…Read More

A fossil turtle shell

Evolution

Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil species

March 28, 2018

Imagine that Labradors and golden retrievers died out a million years ago, leaving only fossilized skeletons behind. Without the help…Read More

3-D scanned girdled lizard

Life on Earth

New project allows web users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out

August 24, 2017

A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch a new initiative to “teleport” specimens from museum shelves to the…Read More

fossil shark teeth laid out in order

Education & Outreach

World’s biggest shark goes to school, thanks to 3-D printing

May 3, 2017

University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program…Read More

Xiaoxian Liu

Awards & Honors

2017 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants

March 30, 2017

Congratulations to our grad students! Four Florida Museum grad students have been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants. These are…Read More

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