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In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to finish excavating a site known as Haile 7G – one of the state’s richest fossil sites due to the sheer number of complete skeletons found in its unique sediments. But
Although the quarry owners wholly support the dig – even lending a helping hand at

The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attacks in that area, according to a University of Florida scientist. In a new seven-year study, researchers from the Florida Museum of Na
They also investigated environmental circumstances, resource availability, first-hand

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants through time. But a new four-year grant from the National Science Foundation is shaking things up. It provides more than $1 million to study how Mediterranea
With that information in hand, the next phase of the project will incorporate computer

Freshwater fishes in Florida are getting a close-up 60 years in the making. Florida Museum of Natural History ichthyologists have written a new book, “Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida,” to describe the freshwater and saltwater species found in Florida’s lakes, rivers and streams. The
, you don’t have as good of a chance of identifying the animal that you have at hand

So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
Sgambati from Seahorse Key and Lisa Lundgren from the UF Education school were also on hand

One of the hardest parts of working from home these days is being separated from hands-on projects in the lab and collections. Museum people want to have their stuff nearby. As the manager of the Ceramic Tech Lab, I normally have many different projects going on: identifying and sorting pottery fro
Using the flat side of the paddle with my hand inside, I whacked it evenly around

Agricola Road Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PO047 Location The site was located about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Bradley, Polk County, Florida, in the Hookers Prairie Mine. It gets its name due to its proximity to Agricola Road. It was exposed by commercial phosphate minin
The in situ fossil-bearing layer was excavated with small hand tools and matrix was

What is oVert? oVert, short for openVertebrate, is a new initiative to provide free, digital 3-D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public. Over the next four years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collections
Even delicate structures, such as the muscles in the hand of this Tanzanian screeching

Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing bat populations that last shared an ancestor hundreds of thousands of years
collapsed in 2009 Reed and Speer suddenly had dozens of free-tailed bat specimens at hand

The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as its role as a menace. Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been
With Hubbell’s hand-drawn maps and descriptions of the landscape, researchers returned