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For more than 100 years, scientists have debated the relationships of a bizarre family of extinct mammals called apatemyids. Distinguished by can opener-shaped upper front teeth and two unusually long fingers, the odd features of these critters have led researchers to compare them with animals from
paleontologist Jonathan Bloch examines the full skeleton of Labidolemur kayi, a 55-million-year-old

When most people hear the words Guantanamo Bay, they immediately think of the infamous prison built there in 2001. But for Roger Portell, an invertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Guantanamo means the chance to collect marine fossils on an island that is otherwise larg
On the second visit, Portell and Toomey found a site dating back 20 to 25 million

Nico Cellinese, assistant curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History herbarium and informatics, has received a prestigious $865,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support Cellinese’s research on genetic diversity in the flowering plant group Campanulac
During an event 5.9 million years ago known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the

Scientists determine how animals are related by comparing the characteristics they share or don’t share. It behooves you to know that horses belong to a group of mammals called ungulates, which are animals with hooves, or hard coverings that protect their toes and are an amazing feature for running.
Rhinos first appeared in Africa 25 million years ago.

A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth’s potential future climate, was greater than previously thought. By studying the chemical composition of fossilized foraminifera, tiny sing
sea surface temperatures and seawater chemistry during the Eocene Epoch, 56-34 million

Horses disappeared from Europe in the Oligocene, but persisted in North America. Many other ancient mammals of the Eocene died out while the perissodactyls — horses, rhinos, the rhino-like titanotheres — became more diverse. The name Oligocene (Oligo—few; cene—recent) means that very few ex
Paleontology The Value of Museums Fossil Horses The Oligocene Epoch 35 Million

The Museum’s collections contain many examples of extinct species. Those shown here vanished in roughly the last 100 years. These specimens help us to understand the past and allow us to ask new questions about biodiversity’s changing landscape. Because these species no longer exist in the wild, mus
they became… Read More Rhinoceroses Rhinos originated in North America 55–50 million

Parahippus appears to be the evolutionary „link“ between the old forest-dwelling horses and the modern plains-dwelling grazers. It has 3 toes, like primitive horses, but the side toes are smaller. They are „horse-faced,“ or long-headed with the eye socket well back from the middle of the skull. W
Species in this genus lived from 24 -17 million years ago.

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Herbarium or used to make… Read More Grants & Initiatives Florida Museum, UF get $1.2 million

Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of its nose. Some of the discoveries being made at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s new dig site in Williston, Florida, are odd and seemingly out of place, to say the least. Animal
The lab is where thousands of 5.5 million-year-old fossils ranging from turtles and