The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, inspires people to value the biological richness and cultural heritage of our diverse world and make a positive difference in its future.
ELEMENT APPLIQUED AND INCISED APPLIQUED, GILDED, AND MOLDED CRUMB APPLIQUE DIPPED HAND
So, we’ve been generally doing two simultaneous field excursions per day, one group goes diving and one group goes snorkeling/wading. Usually we split up at the dock, but one day we all piled onto the boat (9 of us, plus dive gear for 5). Here is the boat from the water, once the snorkelers have a
divers hidden, taken while treading water without fins with a collecting bag in one hand
The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, inspires people to value the biological richness and cultural heritage of our diverse world and make a positive difference in its future.
POLYCHROME-TYPE A PANAMA POLYCHROME-TYPE B PEARLWARE, EDGED PEARLWARE, HAND
The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, inspires people to value the biological richness and cultural heritage of our diverse world and make a positive difference in its future.
POLYCHROME-TYPE A PANAMA POLYCHROME-TYPE B PEARLWARE, EDGED PEARLWARE, HAND
If a shark is sighted, stay calm and maintain your position in as quiet a manner as possible. Most sharks merely are curious and will leave on their own accord. Enjoy your opportunity to see one of nature’s most magnificent predators. If you have been spearfishing or abalone gathering and are hol
but smoothly, watching the shark all the time, with your dive partner close at hand
Eremotherium eomigrans Quick Facts Common Name: Wandering giant ground sloth About two dozen skeletons of Eremotherium eomigrans were recovered from ancient lake sediments represented by the Haile 7C and 7G fossil sites. The mounted skeleton on display at the Florida Museum of Natural Hi
Fossil Permits Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Eremotherium eomigrans Left hand
Update from our fabrication team on the life-size passion flower vine for the Discovery Zone! They’ve been working on the flower’s corona filament, the frondy, curly fringe around the center of the flower. The pretty filament on passion flowers helps guide insects and humming birds to the flower‘
layers of colors to the big filament wires, and then touching up the details by hand
Until a time machine is invented, fossils represent the only information we have about extinct animals. The information contained in fossils can be developed and enhanced by proper preparation techniques. This information can also be preserved for future generations through proper conservation and
Different nozzles may be fitted to the hand held stylus.
Celebrate ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ with hands-on activities and experiments during this FREE program open to everyone. In 2015, the United Nations selected Feb. 11 as ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ in order to encourage more female participation in science. Joi
and fossil showcase will give you a chance to look at real geologic samples with hand
While fossil plant remains are nowhere as abundant as the remains of fossil vertebrates, or invertebrates in Florida, they are nonetheless, an important part of Florida’s fossil record. In fact, the fossil sea grasses found in the limestones of the Middle Eocene Avon Park Formation of south-central
What to Collect For purposes of identification, a small hand sample (measuring perhaps
