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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
Fossils offer clues to North Florida’s past
In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to…Read More
Bountiful harvest
As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked…Read More