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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

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

Sphyrna tudes Named for its unusually small eyes, which evolved due to its preference for muddy coastal waters. Sporting a distinctly flat and arched cephalophoil, or „hammerhead“, this species is can detect prey in the murkiest of waters. Order – Carcharhiniformes Family – Sphyrnidae Genus
This has led scientists to postulate that there is a connection between the carotenoid

Sabertooth Cave (= Saber-tooth Cave or Allen Cave) University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality CI006 Location Sabertooth Cave is located about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) northwest of Lecanto, between State Highway 44 and County Road 491, Citrus County, Florida. 28.86º N; 82.49º W. Age Lat
second and last expedition to Sabertooth Cave occurred on August 9, 1957 and was led

An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually a lizard. The new species, named Oculudentavis naga in honor of the Naga people of Myanmar and India, is represente
courtesy of Stephanie Abramowicz/Peretti Museum Foundation/Current Biology The team, led

At the Florida Museum’s Butterfly Rainforest exhibit, more than butterflies fly by. Time flies by here, too. This year, the Museum’s most popular exhibit turned 20! The Butterfly Rainforest opened in August 2004. Today, visitors of all ages enjoy experiencing the exhibit and its lush landscape,
Florida Museum Associates Board members, led by Tom Emmel, tour the construction

VENOMOUS Other common names Cottonmouth, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Water Moccasin, Moccasin Basic description The average adult Florida cottonmouth is 30-48 inches (76-122 cm) in total length. This snake is heavy bodied with a pattern of light brown and dark brown crossbands containing many dark sp
The open mouth threat display of cottonmouths has led to the widespread belief that

The first documented shark attach in the Americas, cal AD 789-1033. There are no eyewitness accounts, only the testimony of the bones. Yet our knowledge of prehistoric lifeways and forensic anthropology allow us to reconstruct what probably happened. The incident went something like this: „Th
Photo © Linda Budinoff The characteristics of the multiple cut marks led me to

The recent launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set a record for the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line, the boundary 62 miles overhead that separates Earth’s atmosphere from everything beyond it. It was the fi
said. “This was especially profound because this is the lineage that ultimately led

Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new Science study shows. Despite having lizardlike claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their li
wonderful’ Once classified as salamanders, albies’ stippled, reinforced skulls led