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Paynes Prairie Moths – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Museum staff began surveying local moths in 2005. So far nearly 1,000 different moth species have been recorded from Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and adjacent areas, highlighting the significant biodiversity in Gainesville. Summary Paynes Prairie Moths (various species) From Alachua Co.,
21,000-acre natural landmark with over 250 known species of birds, alligators, bison

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Florida’s Indians from ancient times to the present – Research News

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Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the „Ancient Floridians“ chapter of „Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,“ by Jerald T. Milanich, published by University Press of Florida in 1998. Since at least the 1920s, residents of Florida have been finding Indian artifacts
those animals, like mammoths, Pleistocene horses, and a now-extinct species of bison

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Melbourne – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Melbourne University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality BR002 Location Western part of the city of Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida, at about 28.1° N, 80.6° W. Three separate localities were reported by Gidley and Loomis (1926), of which two produced almost all of the fossils in museum colle
Platygonus compressus †Palaeolama mirifica †Hemiauchenia macrocephala †Bison

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Big-game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths – Research News

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Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. Determining whether the firs
Such an experiment might be similar to the one that involved restoring bison, once

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Remembering Chuck Blanchard – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/remembering-chuck-blanchard/

In Chuck Blanchard’s mind, if you want to know the Calusa, you’ve got to be like the Calusa. So, Blanchard, who died Aug. 17, 2024 at the age of 80, spent thousands of hours over three decades paddling his canoe across hundreds of miles of Southwest Florida’s estuaries, camping on mangrove island
fascinating journey, from the last Ice Age, when the area’s Paleo-Indians hunted bison

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Irvingtonian North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Defining taxon: first appearance of Mammuthus south of 55° N latitude (Bell et al., 2004) Basis of name: Savage (1951) based the name on the Irvington District in Fremont, California, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the location of a Pleistocene vertebrate fauna that contained Mamm
contained Mammuthus and numerous other large herbivores but which notably lacked Bison

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Monkey Jungle Hammock 1 – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Monkey Jungle Hammock 1 University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality DA002 Location The site is located within the boundaries of the Monkey Jungle zoological park in the southern Miami metropolitan area, Dade County, Florida. 25.57º N; 80.43º W. Age Late Pleistocene Epoch; late Ranc
The absence of sloths, proboscideans, and bison is most likely a reflection of a

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Williston 3A – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Williston 3A (=Williston IIIA) University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality LV022 Location Williston 3A is located in a now abandoned and flooded limestone quarry in the northern part of the town of Williston, east and north of US Highway 27 and south of State Highway 121, Levy County, Florid
species, with a definite taphonomic bias against larger taxa such as ground sloths, bison

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Interactive museum exhibit shows how paleontologists study the past – Research News

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A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
smaller but no less imposing fossils from a giant terror pig and a long-horned bison

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