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Perhaps you have worn a string of pearls around your neck, paid for a diver to retrieve what you hope is a lucky shell or recognize these lustrous gems as your birth stone. But have you ever wondered where these iconic minerals come from, what makes a pearl a true pearl, and how a pearl can become a
The oldest known fossil pearls are over 200 million years old, but pearls date back

The Department of Natural History at the Florida Museum, University of Florida, employs 32 faculty-curators and and more than 30 collection managers and other professional staff who pursue a variety of scientific questions within the anthropological, biological, and paleontological sciences. Tra
supervise the growth and maintenance of scientific collections containing more than 40 million

The Department of Natural History at the Florida Museum, University of Florida, employs 32 faculty-curators and and more than 30 collection managers and other professional staff who pursue a variety of scientific questions within the anthropological, biological, and paleontological sciences. Tra
supervise the growth and maintenance of scientific collections containing more than 40 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
Paleontology The Value of Museums Fossil Horses The Miocene Epoch 24 Million

An ancient, cosmopolitan lineage of plants is shaking up scientists’ understanding of how quickly species evolve in temperate ecosystems and why. Many researchers have thought new species evolve in tandem with the development of different physical characteristics and the appearance of new kinds o
found that species diversified first, driven by the Earth’s cooling climate 15 million

“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

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.

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

Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the “abominable mystery” of early plant evolution. In two papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2007, the Florida Museum a
to as the “Big Bang” took place in the comparatively short period of less than 5 million

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
effort to digitize marine invertebrates Paulay is a principal investigator on a $4.4 million