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Species like our adorable canaries are … Continue Pliocene Epoch 5 million to 2.58

When it comes to camels, it’s difficult not to think of the Old World depicted through Arabian Nights – Bedouin travelers crossing vast, radiant deserts by day, through dark, star-spotted Arabian nights. But according to the fossil record, the ancestors of modern camels were creatures of the New Wor
Great Plains, the earliest-known camels dwelled in the American savannah about 35 million

Florida Museum researchers‘ discovery of a giant fossilized snake in Colombia reveals a picture of warmer tropics ruled by beasts larger than anyone imagined. The largest snake the world has ever known – as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car – ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 mi
as a school bus and as heavy as a small car – ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million

Mysterious unidentified fossilized seeds from India, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 2005 and stored among the museum’s botany collections, were recently described by a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher as the world’s oldest-known grape species. Described in the S
November 15, 2013 This specimen of Indovitis chitaleyae from India contains 66-million-year-old

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
primate family tree are now more clearly defined in the fossil record, and about 10 million

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
sixth century at the Pineland archaeological site on Pine… Read More About 55 million

The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher whose findings show that the evolution of horses had more twists and turns than previously thought. According to conventional notions, horses simply became bigger over time and switched from
The tall teeth in this jaw of a nine-million-year-old Florida horse are adapted for

The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as its role as a menace. Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been
the only intact partial skull ever found of a white shark that lived about 4.5 million

Major climatic changes occurred during the Miocene. The world became a cooler, drier place. As a result, forests shrunk and grasslands spread. The animals of the Miocene adapted to this changing world. This epoch is characterized by a major „modernization“ of many animals–they began to resemble th
Fossil Horses The Miocene Epoch 24 Million – 5.3 Million Years Ago Fossil Horses

The Museum has come a long way in the past 100 years. Fieldwork and collecting remain as important today as in the past, while new technologies allow researchers to explore the natural world in ways past scientists could not imagine. Big data and collaborations with partners near and far allow a new
fossil is the largest freshwater turtle species found from the Paleocene (66–56 million