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White River Badlands: prospecting for ancient tortoise fossils – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/white-river-badlands-prospecting-for-ancient-tortoise-fossils/

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

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This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists – Research News

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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

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Interactive museum exhibit shows how paleontologists study the past – Research News

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A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit featured a live laboratory in which paleontologists and volunteers cleaned and prepared specimens from Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been pre
Montbrook, a nearby fossil site with animal remains that have been preserved for 5.5 million

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