Volunteer Harry Lee has been transferring shells to the Florida Museum one car load at a time for eight years
Nearly every Wednesday at 7:05 a.m. for the past ...
Museum researcher Roger Portell injects preservative into a 25-foot-long giant squid recovered off the coast of Jensen Beach by recreational fishermen in June ...
The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 iden...
This 40- to 35-million year old fossil of Oyenaster oblidus shows the ossicles forming the ancient sea star's skeleton. Intact specimens such as this one are r...
Roger Portell, invertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, walks underneath a late Pleistocene coral terrace at Guantanamo Bay Naval ...
Tourists who comb Florida's sandy beaches for exotic shells are probably unaware that they're also picking through bits of geologic history. Incalculable number...
Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson were experts at solving mysteries. Holmes, it is said, could make use of the slightest of clues to piece together t...
