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“Into Africa� rather than “Out of Africa� could well be the better description of how certain mammals originated and spread across the world, according to a Florida Museum of Natural History scientist, who has found the first evidence for origins in North America of a mammal group thought to be ende
longer lives up to that image with the discovery in the Wyoming badlands of 54 million-year-old
Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses fossils of alligators and other animals found at the Montbrook dig site near Williston, Florida. His team compares the prehistoric alligator fossils to the bones of today’s alligators through digital modeling and sh
Research at the University of Florida by Olivia Stultz • June 7, 2019 A 5.5-million-year-old
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane,… Read More About half a million
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
years, dying out only about 2 million years ago.
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initiative to provide free, digital 3-D vertebrate anatomy models and… Read More A $2.5 million
At a time when horses were all intermediate in size and structure, this browsing horse must have really stood out as a peculiar-looking creature because of its very long legs. Descendents of this horse circled the globe. Kalobatippus apparently gave rise to the European Anchitherium and to the East
Species in this genus lived from 24-19 million years ago.
When asked if mountains grow slowly and steadily versus in rapid spurts, most people intuitively gravitate to the „slow and steady“ model. Mountains, we are taught, take an incomprehensibly long time to build up their scads of boulders, jagged peaks and high-altitude plateaus. In fact, most known
to 25 million years ago.
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
to digitize marine invertebrates Paulay is a principal investigator on a $4.4 million
