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Titanoboa – Research News

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Jonathan Bloch, a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the discovery of Titanoboa, the world’s largest snake known to science, which would have been 40- to 50-feet long. The fossil was recovered from the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia and identified
Transcript Jonathan Bloch: After the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years

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Orange Blossom – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

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Spaniards brought citrus to the Americas in the 15th century and orange trees became common in Spanish colonial gardens. Citrus farming has since become important to Florida’s economy – the vast majority destined for orange juice. Summary Orange Blossom (Citrus sinensis) From Alachua Co., Flori
consisted of 8,000 growers, who cultivated over 665,000 acres of land and produced 224 million

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Dr. Fred G. Thompson – Invertebrate Zoology

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Leading non-marine malacologist Fred G. Thompson died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, at the age of 82. Born in 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, Fred was fascinated by the natural world from an early age. Herpetology was his initial interest, but during his travels he was struck by the diversity of non-marine mollu
collection in the southeast and one of the largest in the country with over a half million

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Analyzing major faunal families of the Great American Biotic Interchange – For Educators

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Students will analyze how the Great American Biotic Interchange transformed the current animal distribution of North America. Students will imagine how the GABI animal migration would have been altered if the Isthmus of Panama had never been formed. This lesson plan was developed as part of the 201
teacher will give an overview of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama about three million

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Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Defining taxon: first appearance of the small artiodactyl Pseudoceras (Tedford et al., 2004) Basis of name: Wood et al. (1941) based the name of this LMA on the Clarendon Fauna from Donley County, Texas. This well-studied fauna is based on over two dozen individual localites found a few miles nor
The Clarendonian is divided into three subintervals: the Cl1 from 12.5 to 12.0 million

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Epicyon haydeni – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Epicyon haydeni Quick Facts Common Name: none About the size of a grizzly bear, this species is the largest canid ever known. Its known range extended across the United States from Florida to California and Oregon. Age Range Middle to late Miocene epoch; Clarendonian to early Hem
Clarendonian to early Hemphilian North American land mammal ages About 12 to 6 million

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