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Most of what we know about Mayan civilization relates to kings, queens and their elaborate temples. To understand what life was like for the 99 percent, one researcher turned to ancient animal bones stored at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Ashley Sharpe, a doctoral student at the museum o
high-ranking elites ate a select group of symbolic and prestigious animals like jaguars
There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America, but only one in the United States and Canada. DNA evidence suggests North America’s sole porcupine belongs to a group that originated 10 million years ago, but
Prehistoric elephants, saber-toothed cats, jaguars, llamas, peccaries, deer, skunks
Canis dirus Quick Facts Common Name: dire wolf Canis dirus, the dire wolf, had an estimated mass of 130 to 150 pounds, which made it about 25% heavier than the modern gray wolf (Canis lupus). But smaller than the fictional dire wolves of the TV series Game of Thrones! The largest known dir
and allowed them to take prey carcasses away from more solitary predators such as jaguars
To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself. In fact, it’s pretty much one and the same. When you finish your chicken dinner, your next step is most likely to toss the leftover bones in the garbage. And if you hunt, you probably
Representative large mammals included deer and peccary, with a few jaguars, tapirs
Scientific Publications that have used the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections of the Florida Museum 1908 Sellards, E. H. 1908. Fossils contained in the Florida formations. Florida Geological Survey Annual Report 1:23—25. 1910 Sellards, E. H. 1910. A preliminary paper on the Florida phosphate
Size change in North American Quaternary jaguars. Pp. 343—372 in R. A.
