The materials from St. Augustine, Florida (1565-present) were generated by systematic archaeological excavations over the past 40 years (1959-1999) on 33 Spanish colonial, British colonial, African American, American Indian and post-colonial sites in St. Augustine, Florida. They include more than 1
They include more than 1 million items of glass, metals, stone, shell and bone.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History’s construction project has been restored to its original scope and funding levels, resulting in a postponed closure date. The public exhibition galleries will now close to visitors beginning Monday, March 24, 2025. As originally envisioned
further into spring, staying open longer for the community to enjoy.� With the $10 million
Limpkins, Aramus guarauna, are medium-sized wading birds with long legs and long, slightly curved beaks. Their bodies are covered in brown feathers, and their heads and elongated necks are accented with white flecks. They’re usually found in freshwater wetlands, swamps and mangroves. They are oft
in the Aramidae family that lived in the Americas during the Miocene, 23 to 5.3 million
Encased in hard rock, the bones of many fossilized mammals are only partially visible for scientists to study. A poor attempt to take apart the rock and view the complete fossil may damage the bone, but micro-CT scanning technology has safeguarded the fate of these specimens, many of which are tens
Notharctus skull in his hand, Bloch explained the scanner can digitally recreate the 45-million-year-old
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
Jon Bloch is no stranger to film crews and talking to viewers about his research. From the origin of primates to Titanoboa, his work has made headlines and caught the public’s imagination. So he was not surprised when asked to participate on an episode of NOVA. The two-hour NOVA series specia
The PETM was a rapid global warming event that happened about 55.8 million years
Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an evolutionary head-scratcher. Now, new fossil evidence shows that ancient primates – including one of the oldest known, Teilhardina brandti
were found in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, which was home to this ancient primate 56 million
The recent launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set a record for the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line, the boundary 62 miles overhead that separates Earth’s atmosphere from everything beyond it. It was the fi
That’s how two 56 million-year-old jaw bones and the shell of a predatory moon
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
A new study published in the journal Marine… Read More About half a million years
