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Jeanette… Read More Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Jeanette… Read More Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records
Drying waterholes, baked brown grasses, and the ever-blowing hot wind greeted us, as my wife Shelley and I pushed our dust-coated car down the dirt roads toward Toadstool Park. We drove from Florida to this desolate corner of Northwestern Nebraska to collect fossil tortoises (add in time element her
mid-continent of North America in the late Eocene and early Oligocene epochs, some 30 to 35 million
Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall 1659 Museum Road Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800 352-273-2107 hwang@flmnh.ufl.edu Collection Paleobotany & Palynology Education Ph.D., Geology, University of Florida M.S., Computer Sciences and Engineering, University of Florida
Publications ResearchGate Research News Mar 30, 2011 Fossil reveals new genus of 125-million-year-old
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of our Butterfly Rainforest put on a show this … Continue Miocene Epoch 23 to 5 million
The „Grandfather“ to the modern horse, Pliohippus appears to be the source of the latest radiation in the horse family. It is believed to have given rise to Hippidion and Onohippidion, genera that thrived for a time in South American, and to Dinohippus which in turn led to Equus. Where & When
Species in this genus lived from 12-6 million years ago.
The Florida Museum’s Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotan
Search the Collection Database Illustration of Archaeanthus, a 100 million year
Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Lucas Majure is a 2021 recipient of the University of Florida’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, one of the university’s top honors for junior faculty. An assistant curator of the Florida Museum and curator of the University of Florida Herbariu
Since joining the museum, he has also secured more than $1.2 million in new grant
In a surprise twist, a major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as quickly in temperate zones as the tropics. The finding runs counter to a long-held hypothesis that tropical regions, home to the planet’s richest biological diversity, outpace their temperate counterparts in producing new sp
Although rosids originated 93-115 million years ago, the rate at which the group
In 1969, fossilized leaves of the species Othniophyton elongatum — which translates to “alien plant� — were identified in eastern Utah. Initially, scientists theorized the extinct species may have belonged to the ginseng family (Araliaceae). However, a case once closed is now being revisited. New fo
curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has studied 47-million-year-old
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