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Amphicyon longiramus – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/amphicyon-longiramus/

Amphicyon longiramus Quick Facts Common Name: White’s bear-dog The Florida Museum of Natural History has over 550 specimens of this species in its collection, and has the only known mounted skeleton of the species on public display. Amphicyon longiramus was the top carnivore in Florida 1
Amphicyon longiramus was the top carnivore in Florida 16 to 18 million years ago.

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Hemphillian North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/land-mammal-ages/hemphillian/

Defining taxon: first appearance of the ground sloth Pliometanastes (Tedford et al., 2004) Basis of name: Wood et al. (1941) based the name on what they termed the “Hemphill member of the Ogallala [Formation].” This stratigraphic unit was originally named the “Hemphill Beds” by Reed and Longnecke
The Hemphillian is divided into four subintervals: the Hh1 from 9.0 to 7.5 million

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Calling aspiring fossil hunters: Levy County excavation opens to volunteers Oct. 5 – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/calling-aspiring-fossil-hunters-levy-county-excavation-opens-to-volunteers-oct-5/

Volunteers can channel their inner paleontologist by digging alongside museum scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Montbrook fossil site in Levy County starting Thursday, Oct. 5. About 40 minutes southwest of Gainesville, the excavation area includes an exposed riverbed close to
close to an ancient coastline that has produced a wealth of fossils about 5 to 5.5 million

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About SEFS – Thompson Earth Systems Institute

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/scientist-in-every-florida-school/about-sefs/

The Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) was established in October 2018, and awarded funding in 2019 for the moonshot initiative: Scientist in Every Florida School (SEFS). Mission: The mission of the SEFS program is to engage Florida K-12 students and teachers in cutting-edge research by provid
Background: SEFS is one of just eight projects awarded funding through a $17 million

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How did primate brains get so big? – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/how-did-primate-brains-get-so-big/

Virtual brains reconstructed from ancient, kiwi-sized primate skulls could help resolve one of the most intriguing evolutionary mysteries: how modern primates developed large brains. University of Florida paleontologists found clues in the remarkably preserved skulls of adapiforms, lemur-like
lemur-like primates that scurried around the tropical forests of Wyoming about 50 million

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