Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows
Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia….Read More
Oldest mahogany fossil named for paleobotanist Steven Manchester
A fruit from a mahogany tree that flourished in the time of the dinosaurs has been named in honor of…Read More
Fingerprints of ancient forests offer rare look at Florida 16 million years ago
Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida’s largest slice of visible bedrock towers more…Read More
Winners of 2017 Austin and Bullen Awards announced
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2017 Austin Award and Bullen Award, given for…Read More
George Washington’s little buttercup
Two men set out on the Potomac River in 1892 looking for fossil plants from the days when dinosaurs roamed…Read More
World’s oldest-known grape fossils found in India
Mysterious unidentified fossilized seeds from India, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 2005 and stored among the…Read More
Scientists search for grape fossils at long-forgotten site in Peru
In the spring of 2010, Steve Manchester, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of paleobotany, and Fabiany Herrera, a University…Read More
Fossil reveals new genus of 125-million-year-old eudicot from China
A Florida Museum researcher has helped describe the earliest known fossil remains of a flowering plant from China that has…Read More
Pine Island pollen study leads to revision of state’s ancient geography
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
Plant fossils give first picture of earliest Neotropical rainforests
A Florida Museum of Natural History paleobotanist and other researchers have used a rich cache of plant fossils discovered in…Read More