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Florida Museum Science

Fieldwork

shallow rippling water

Fieldwork

Bull sharks and rays tracked in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon

January 1, 2009

Worldwide, there are only 75 known instances of unprovoked bull shark attacks and 23 human fatalities on record in the…Read More

sinkhole overhead

Fieldwork

Fossils from Bahamian Blue Hole may give clues to early life

May 1, 2008

Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida’s coast and left…Read More

discovering fossils

Evolution

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

murky coral reef close up view

Fieldwork

Racing to survey coral reefs

July 1, 2007

Around the globe,scientists are ringing alarm bells about coral bleaching—when corals expel their symbiotic, food-producing algae due to heat stress,…Read More

finding fossils

Evolution

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

fossil slab

Evolution

The oldest land in Florida

January 1, 2006

Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson were experts at solving mysteries. Holmes, it is said, could make use of…Read More

archaeology site

Cultural Heritage

Along the perimeter fence: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

July 1, 2005

The Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the oldest U.S. military installation on foreign soil. It was established at…Read More

Fossil tortoise image

Fieldwork

White River Badlands: prospecting for ancient tortoise fossils

October 1, 2004

Drying waterholes, baked brown grasses, and the ever-blowing hot wind greeted us, as my wife Shelley and I pushed our…Read More

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