Now Available for Download Displayed at the Florida Museum in 2020, this exhibition offers a scientific overview of Florida’s trademark weather phenomena including information on their formation, naming, categories, and hurricane seasons around the world. Charts and graphics illustrate the facts ab
In the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, the term tropical cyclone is used.
A new study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state’s geologic history, showing Florida could be 10 million to 15 million years older than previously believed. The discovery of land in Florida during the early Eocene opens the
willing to spend the time looking into it.� Pine Island was the site of a Calusa Indian
This object is on permanent display in the Museum’s South Florida People & Environments exhibit located in the “Native American Legacyâ€� gallery. Summary Box Lid With Painted Reptile Design From Collier Co., Florida Dates to ~AD 700-1500 Collection South Florida Archaeology Story Th
south-florida-archaeology-box-lid-with-painted-reptile-design.mp3 The legend of the horned serpent is a recurring theme throughout the Indian
Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands. The teeth, excavated in northwest Puerto Rico, belong to a previously unknown rodent genus and species, now named Caribeomys merzeraudi. About the size of
from its relatives and could indicate these rodents belonged to a distinct West Indian
The discovery that many Caribbean corals are only distantly related to their counterparts in the Pacific Ocean makes the threats of pollution and global warming trends even more serious, says Florida Museum of Natural History Malacology Curator Gustav Paulay. Paulay, a member of the team that mad
Compared to the richly diverse and abundant reef of the Indian and Pacific oceans
Cane Basket Examples of Seminole cane baskets are rare in collections. The Florida Museum is one of the few museums that permanently displays an historic cane basket (Figure 1). The basket is estimated to have been made around the early 1830s, and the techniques for creating it reflect those us
1830s, and the techniques for creating it reflect those used by Creek and Choctaw Indians
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This object is on permanent display in the Museum’s South Florida People & Environments  exhibit, located in the “Indian People in South Florida Todayâ€� gallery. Summary Coiled Basket With Doll Lid Made by Agnes Billie Cypress (basket) and Lucy Johns (lid), Immokalee Gift to the Museum from
display in the Museum’s South Florida People & Environments exhibit, located in the “Indian
This object is on permanent display in the South Florida People & Environments exhibit, located in the “Indian People in South Florida Today� gallery. Summary Shoulder Bag From northern Florida Dates to ~1830s-1840s Collection South Florida Archaeology Story This is a man’s beaded
permanent display in the South Florida People & Environments exhibit, located in the “Indian
Caribbean Monk Seals were last seen in the 1950s, in part because people overhunted them for oil and overfished their food sources. This bone comes from a Calusa archaeological site, where people may have taken advantage of a seal that washed ashore during a storm. Summary Caribbean Mo
The South Florida native Indian people did not frequently eat seals, so we think
