While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected over the past 40 years, Florida Museum of Natural History ornithologist Tom Webber inspected an especially fragile reel from the 1960s. “Eventually, even the magnetic plas
While at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he began a comprehensive collection of
Ciconia maltha Quick Facts Common Names: Asphalt stork or La Brea stork A relatively large species of Ciconia, with a height of over 4 feet (1.5 m) and a wingspan up to 9 feet (3 m) across. While many large mammals became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene in North America, Ciconia ma
The type locality is Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles County, California (Miller, 1910
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ago. Or at least, that’s what paleontologists thought, until they began
Jorge Vélez-Juarbe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Philippe
Anyone intrigued by snakes may decide to keep one as a pet or as an object of fascination. Responsible snake ownership requires considerations which may not be immediately obvious to all. The following provides summary information and basic requirements for responsible snake ownership. For a fuller
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Coleman 2A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality SM001 Location Coleman 2A is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Sumterville, between US Highway 301 and the Federal Correctional Complex Of Coleman in a former limestone quarry operated by Dixie Lime and Stone Corporation, Sumte
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Haile 15A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality AL032 Location Location: in an abandoned limestone quarry in western Alachua County about 2.9 miles (4.7 km) northeast of the town of Newberry; 29.7° N, 82.6° W. The site was destroyed by mining operations and no longer exists. Age
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Opportunities are available at UF and partnership institutions for students to learn about and to undertake projects in different aspects of paleontology, geochronology, sedimentary geology and tectonics. A list of peer-reviewed journal articles can be accessed on our Publications page. Short synop
Florida, USA David Foster, University of Florida, USA Camilo Montes, Universidad de Los
Neohipparion eurystyle Quick Facts Common Name: none This moderate-sized hipparionine horse ranged from central Mexico to Nebraska and east to central Florida. Neohipparion eurystyle and the closely related, larger species Neohipparion gidleyi (not known from Florida) represent the culminati
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Ichetucknee River University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Localities CO001, CO028, CO031, CO042, CO043, CO044, CO045, CO046, CO053, CO063, CO064, CO065, CO066, CO067, CO068, CO069, CO081, CO086, and CO087 Location The river is about 4.1 miles (6.7 km) northwest of Fort White, Columbia-Suwannee co
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