Becoming Visible: Michelle Barboza
The University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated 100 years of inspiring people to care about life on…
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Odd couple: Florida mouse, gopher tortoise have been rooming for centuries
The Florida mouse and gopher tortoise have been in a serious relationship for thousands of years. Theirs is a commensal…
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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…
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Five Facts: Fossil shark teeth in Florida
Whether you’re a casual seeker or a passionate paleontologist, living in Florida puts a treasure trove of fossil shark teeth…
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World’s biggest shark goes to school, thanks to 3-D printing
University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program…
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Extinct tortoise yields oldest tropical DNA
An extinct tortoise species that accidentally tumbled into a water-filled limestone sinkhole in the Bahamas about 1,000 years ago has…
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News: Saber-Tooth Cat Skull Find in Montbrook
A volunteer at our Montbrook dig site unearthed what appears to be a 5-million-year- old saber-tooth cat skull. Volunteer Bill…
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Searching for red pandas in an elephant graveyard
Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of…
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Bruce MacFadden named president-elect of Paleontological Society
A Florida Museum of Natural History curator has been selected to serve as president-elect of the Paleontological Society, the largest…
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A reptilian anachronism
New study also shows American alligator shared ancient Florida with giant crocodiles From climate to the peninsula’s very shape, not…
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