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North Central Florida has been home to many creatures, modern and ancient alike. We are familiar with some, like our backyard eastern gray squirrels and gopher tortoises, but we won’t catch a glimpse of the extinct three-toed horses (Archaeohippus blackbergi, Parahippus leonensis) or giant salamande
Each of these animals is part of the faunal history of the Thomas Farm site, an 18-million-year-old

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — K-12 science teachers from across Florida will spend four days this summer in a University of Florida laboratory as part of a professional development workshop hosted by the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute titled “Florida’s Connection to the Biosphere.â€� July 7-12, 34
The project was one of eight selected for UF’s “moonshot� initiative, a $17-million

Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants. The study, to be published online Sunday in Nature, is the first to identify the occurrence of ancient genome duplication events and show
several hundred genes pinpointed ancient genome duplication events at about 319 million

The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of its annual Austin, biodiversity and Bullen graduate student awards, given for significant contributions to the development of museum collections, programs and research. Maria Vallejo-Pareja is this year’s recipient of the Austin a
body size were affected by the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs 66 million

In 1917, state legislation creating the Florida State Museum was signed into law. In the past century, the Museum has flourished, both as an educational resource to curious minds, and as a research center for local ecology and global biodiversity. We’ve been known as the Florida Museum of Natural Hi
100th Anniversary Gala sponsors for contributing towards the Florida Museum’s $1 million

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

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

From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the Greek Islands, Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Nico Cellinese has searched for the answers to how evolution works. But during fieldwork in the Mediterranean Basin—a biodiversity hotspot—she found more questions than answers. “There are so many
environment and culminated with the onset of the current Mediterranean climate about 2 million

Titanis walleri Quick Facts Common Name: Waller’s terror bird Titanis walleri belongs to the family Phorusrhacidae, an extinct group of Tertiary birds otherwise known only from South America. Titanis is the only confirmed member from North America. They were large, predatory, flightless bi
epochs; late Hemphillian (Hh4) to late Blancan land mammal ages About 5 to 1.8 million

Shovel-tuskers were among the largest proboscideans (related to elephants) to live in North America. Paleontologists once believed they used their huge shovel-shaped jaws and tusks to scoop up aquatic plants, but Museum research suggests multiple purposes, including digging soil and scraping bark of
Britt’s Shovel-tusker (Amebelodon britti) From Marion Co., Florida Lived ~6 million