Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region…
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Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making
There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America,…
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Rachel Narducci takes on new role as vertebrate paleontology collections manager
Like many children, Rachel Narducci gained a love and appreciation of dinosaurs from the movie “Jurassic Park.” Unlike most kids…
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Are shark teeth fossils true fossils?
We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum’s vertebrate…
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NSF grant will improve digital access to museum vertebrate fossils
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a $500,000 collections grant from the National Science Foundation to improve online…
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Calling aspiring fossil hunters: Levy County excavation opens to volunteers Oct. 5
Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil…
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Searching for red pandas in an elephant graveyard
Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of…
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New 5-million-year-old Saber-toothed cat
After being stored in the Florida Museum of Natural History collections for 20 years, researchers have described a new genus…
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Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History
The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000…
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New study first to directly measure body temperatures of extinct species
A new study by researchers from five institutions including the University of Florida introduces the first method to directly measure body temperatures…
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