208 volunteers, 51 students for course credit, 14 teachers for professional development, and 38 Florida Museum staff devoted a grand … Continue
We have a new faunal list addition to our cartilaginous fishes! It’s a mako shark (Isurus sp.) tooth discovered by Jonathan Bloch … Continue
From October 5th to December 18th, Montbrook has seen 177 volunteers digging 5 days per week, for a grand total of … Continue
We have officially passed the 10,000 mark for cataloged Montbrook specimens! Check out the ‘Online Specimen Database‘ blog post for … Continue
You’re Invited! What: Our Vertebrate Paleontology department is taking over the temporary exhibit in the ‘Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 … Continue
We are only 200 fossils away from cataloging 10,000 Montbrook specimens. We have a whole lot more to process, but … Continue
Okay, so this is kind of exciting. Our public (Florida Museum Vertebrate Paleontology) online database has been updated with Montbrook … Continue
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 … Continue
Now that digging is over for the season, we have been making great progress towards processing the fossil finds. Through … Continue
A huge thank you to our amazing Montbrook volunteers! We absolutely could not have had such a successful digging season … Continue