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Florida Museum fossils go to space – Research News

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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

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Historical Archaeology – Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/collections/historical-archaeology/

The Historical Archaeology program has had active research projects ongoing in St. Augustine, Florida, since 1973, and in Hispaniola since 1979. The sites and their collections provide a record of Spanish colonial settlement in the circum-Caribbean region, spanning the period between the arrival of
Spanish Pitcher Spanish Sword (cast) The collection consists of more than 2 million

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Montbrook Fossil Dig – Florida Museum of Natural History

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The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum has at least one fossil collecting session per year that uses volunteer assistance. Our current large-scale excavation is at the Montbrook Site. The site is about a 45-minute drive south of Gainesville, near the town of Williston in Levy
on the faunal assemblage and preservation, the site is believed to be 5 to 5.5 million

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Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-primates-had-grooming-claws/

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

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NOVA features our paleontologist on Feb. 5 – Florida Museum Blog

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/nova-polar-extremes-feb-5-2020/

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

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Florida Museum MVP Touchdown Challenge – Florida Museum

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Become a Florida Museum MVP (Most Valuable Patron) and help us win big this season! Museum fans pledge to donate a set dollar amount per touchdown scored by the Gators during the 2017 regular season and help support the Florida Museum’s Exhibit and Public Programs Endowment. The endowment provides
the endowment are tax deductible and will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $2 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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Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum – Pressroom

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Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum Sept. 23, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018 Press Release Major Themes and Components Did You Know? Photo Captions Exhibit Page FREE ADMISSION From rare, ancient treasures to cutting-edge technologies, the exhibit showcases the Museum’s 17 co
Objects from the Museum’s 40 million specimens also reveal the stories of everything

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Collections Overview – Invertebrate Paleontology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/collections/overview/

The strength and significance of the FLMNH Invertebrate Paleontology (IP) Collection resides in the extensive amount of material collected within the last 50 years from over 8,500 sites around Florida, the southeastern U.S., and the circum-Caribbean. These collections are unique in that they repres
At present, the formed Systematic Collection (TX) contains 242,199 lots (~ 2.25 million

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Longtime Florida Museum supporters invest in state’s future with new McGurn Exhibition Hall – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/mcgurn-exhibition-hall/

During its more than 100-year existence, the Florida Museum of Natural History has inspired people to learn and care about life on Earth and make a positive difference in its future. Similarly, Linda and Ken McGurn’s life work has centered on leaving places better than they found them. Now the Mc
Their donation will help fund the more than $32 million expansion planned for the

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