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Paleobotany + Palynology

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Awards & Honors

Florida Museum honors 2023 Austin and Biodiversity award winners

April 5, 2023

The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of the annual Austin and biodiversity graduate student awards. Jeanette…Read More

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Evolution

Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows

February 16, 2022

Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia….Read More

Steve Manchester with sea cow fossil

Awards & Honors

Oldest mahogany fossil named for paleobotanist Steven Manchester

April 24, 2020

A fruit from a mahogany tree that flourished in the time of the dinosaurs has been named in honor of…Read More

A close-up of an ancient palm's fossilized frond imprint

Florida Biodiversity

Fingerprints of ancient forests offer rare look at Florida 16 million years ago

September 18, 2019

Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida’s largest slice of visible bedrock towers more…Read More

pottery fragment

Awards & Honors

Winners of 2017 Austin and Bullen Awards announced

May 12, 2017

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2017 Austin Award and Bullen Award, given for…Read More

illustration of George Washington with buttercup flowers in chest pocket

Evolution

George Washington’s little buttercup

August 11, 2016

Two men set out on the Potomac River in 1892 looking for fossil plants from the days when dinosaurs roamed…Read More

A specimen of Indovitis chitaleyae

Evolution

World’s oldest-known grape fossils found in India

November 15, 2013

Mysterious unidentified fossilized seeds from India, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 2005 and stored among the…Read More

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Evolution

Scientists search for grape fossils at long-forgotten site in Peru

May 1, 2011

In the spring of 2010, Steve Manchester, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of paleobotany, and Fabiany Herrera, a University…Read More

angiosperm fossil from China

Evolution

Fossil reveals new genus of 125-million-year-old eudicot from China

March 30, 2011

A Florida Museum researcher has helped describe the earliest known fossil remains of a flowering plant from China that has…Read More

magnified pollen

Florida Biodiversity

Pine Island pollen study leads to revision of state’s ancient geography

March 2, 2011

A new study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the…Read More

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