A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early…
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Florida Museum fossils go to space
The recent launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set…
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Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India
During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near…
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New book brings prehistoric mammals to life
After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched…
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Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years at the Florida Museum of Natural History
In 1977, Bruce MacFadden accepted a curatorial position with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Since then,…
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Advait Jukar joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of vertebrate paleontology
The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus…
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Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making
There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America,…
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Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women
María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…
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Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world’s most ecologically diverse bats
Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the…
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Frogs were Florida’s first-known vertebrates from the Caribbean
Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years…
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