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Enhydritherium terraenovae – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Quick Facts Common Name: none Enhydritherium terraenovae is a large, extinct otter capable of living in both freshwater and coastal marine habitats. A nearly complete skeleton is on permanent public display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. It was collected at the Moss Acres Racetrack
This led Lambert (1997) to conclude that these fish bones were the stomach contents

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Smalltooth Sawfish – Sawfish Conservation & Research

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Sawfish may look somewhat like sharks, but with wide pectoral fins and flatter bodies, they are actually modified rays. Their rostrum (snout), instead of teeth, has specialized denticles which are a type of scales, that they use to stun and injure small fish before eating them. Smalltooth sawfish gr
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Hungry for hutia? Our taste for Bahamas’ ‘most peaceable rodent’ shaped its diversity – Research News

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The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years. The hutia, which resembles a bristly beanbag, flourished in the Bahamas for millennia, the island
paradoxical role in the hutia’s boom-to-bust story, according to a new study led

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Florida panther conservation – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are fine-tuning conservation knowledge about endangered Florida panthers by studying their bones and pelts. Researchers recently concluded two pilot studies: one examined the presence of Harris lines, or growth-arrest lines, detectable by radiography in p
Photo by Jeff Gage One study led by Mammalogy Collections Manager Laurie Wilkins

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Becoming Visible: Michelle Barboza – Research News

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The University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated 100 years of inspiring people to care about life on Earth in 2017. To mark the closing of an era and the beginning of a new century, UF News profiled three Florida Museum women who are shaping the research institution’s future
MMCO), a natural global warming event that occurred about 17 million years ago and led

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Record number of endangered sawfish tagged – Research News

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Scientists studying marine animals at the Florida Museum of Natural History seem to be living the high life, heading to the coast for fishing trips in the name of research. But when you take away the refreshments, the relaxation most people associate with going fishing and consider they’re lo
Around 11 a.m., the crew would switch gears and renowned guide captain Jim Wilcox led

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Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia – Research News

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About 56 million years ago, on an Earth so warm that palm trees graced the Arctic Circle, a mouse-sized primate known as Teilhardina first curled its fingers around a branch. The earliest-known ancestor of modern primates, Teilhardina’s close relatives would eventually give rise to today’s monkey
warming 56 million years ago is that it marks the origin of the group that ultimately led

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Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida – Research News

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About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had me
But a sustained pattern of global cooling that began about 14 million years ago led

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Shark Fishing in the U.S. – Discover Fishes

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Shark fishing in the United States occurs both recreationally and commercially. Commercial shark fishers use methods that allow them to catch large quantities of sharks to be sold at market. Recreational shark fishers mainly catch sharks for the thrill of the catch, trophies and/or personal consumpt
is a non-weighted line allowing it to remain higher in the water column than the led

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Seminole Field – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Seminole Field University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality PI004 Location Along banks of Joes Creek (labeled Saint Joes Creek on Google Maps) and its tributaries; about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of downtown St. Petersburg and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida; 27
Herbert Winters of the Florida Geological Survey led field parties that collected

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