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Richard Hulbert

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Hires & Promotions

Rachel Narducci takes on new role as vertebrate paleontology collections manager

October 26, 2022

Like many children, Rachel Narducci gained a love and appreciation of dinosaurs from the movie “Jurassic Park.” Unlike most kids…Read More

pile of large variety of fossil shark teeth showing a variety of shapes and colors

Collections

Are shark teeth fossils true fossils?

October 16, 2019

We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum’s vertebrate…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

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

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

Richard Hulbert Jr. compares the lower jaw size

Evolution

New 5-million-year-old Saber-toothed cat

May 14, 2013

After being stored in the Florida Museum of Natural History collections for 20 years, researchers have described a new genus…Read More

Closeup of a fossilized jaw

Collections

Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History

May 4, 2011

The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000…Read More

pouring tooth enamel into vial

Life on Earth

New study first to directly measure body temperatures of extinct species

May 24, 2010

A new study by researchers from five institutions including the University of Florida introduces the first method to directly measure body temperatures…Read More

discovering fossils

Fieldwork

Fossils offer clues to North Florida’s past

December 1, 2007

In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to…Read More

finding fossils

Fieldwork

Bountiful harvest

September 1, 2006

As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked…Read More

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Gainesville, FL 32611

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