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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
period immediately following the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago

A new study from Florida Museum of Natural History researchers could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve? For the last 150 years, some paleontologists have concluded the great white shark, Carcharodon carcha
hastalis, a broad-toothed mako shark that probably grew to 27 feet long and lived 9 million

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Florida Oligocene painting by David Miller Aug 29, 2023 Oligocene Epoch 34 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
Subscribe This specimen of Indovitis chitaleyae from India contains 66-million-year-old

Animal remains are most likely to be fossilized if their hard parts are covered by layers of sediments soon after death. With time and pressure, these sediments, such as sand, plant debris, or ash, become compressed into rock. Therefore, fossils are found in sedimentary rock, like sandstone, shale,
Let’s look at a hypothetical fossil locality to see this process in action. 100 million

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2009 Florida Museum researchers find that a rapid burst of flowering plants 90 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

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its current size as glaciers grew… Read More Collections iDigBio receives $20 million

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Collections UF, FSU receive $10 million for project to digitize U.S. biology collections