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Florida Museum Science

Vertebrate Paleontology

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Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2020 student research award winners named

May 5, 2020

The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin…Read More

coqui

Evolution

Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog

April 7, 2020

The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for…Read More

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

Museum Life

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

black and white image of David Webb

Our People

Remembering lifelong paleontology expert S. David Webb

September 27, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History is saddened to announce the death of S. David Webb, former distinguished research curator…Read More

fossil bird skull

Life on Earth

Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave

August 15, 2019

Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones…Read More

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Awards & Honors

Florida Museum students awarded NSF graduate fellowships

May 1, 2019

Three Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a competitive funding…Read More

three large shark teeth

Evolution

How megalodon’s teeth evolved into the ‘ultimate cutting tools’

March 4, 2019

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth, which can be more than…Read More

fossil sea cow skull seen from side

Life on Earth

20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America’s oldest marine mammal

February 18, 2019

Steven Manchester didn’t set out to discover Central America’s oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants….Read More

Bruce MacFadden

Awards & Honors

Bruce MacFadden named president of Paleontological Society

January 18, 2019

A Florida Museum of Natural History curator and distinguished professor has been elected to serve as the president of the…Read More

3D scan of a jaw

Evolution

Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia

November 29, 2018

About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate…Read More

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