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discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past About half a million
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funding from the… May 28, 2024 Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million
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Continue Hard clam shellfish aquaculture, also known as clam farming, is a $20 million
The Florida Museum added 23 adult Walking Catfish specimens to its Fish Collection on 10/23/2017. These specimens were collected between 1996-2002 at several locations in Florida by federal scientists surveying invasive species. The Walking Catfish, Clarias batrachus, is an invasive species in Fl
Florida Museum Fish Collection is the second largest in the United States, with 2.4 million
Most recent forms of mammals evolved during the Pleistocene Epoch. A dramatic „event“ of this time period was the last „Ice Age.“ The Pleistocene Epoch also was the last time that a great diversity of mammals lived in North America, including mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, several llama-lik
Fossil Horses The Pleistocene Epoch 1.75 Million to 11,000 years ago Fossil
As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked forward to a good harvest. They sure weren’t thinking about rhinoceroses. But after their plow turned up broken bits of what appeared to be bones from a large animal, they called Richard Hulbert
representing about three dozen animal species that lived in North Florida about eight 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
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
This large horse was a very specialized leaf eater, or browser, at a time when most horses were beginning to exclusively eat grass. Megahippus was the last of the browsing horses in North America. Where & When? Fossils of Megahippus are uncommon. They are known from the Miocene of the Great
Species in this genus lived from 15-11 million years ago.
The „middle horse“ earned its name. Mesohippus is intermediate between the Eohippus-like horses of the Eocene, which don’t look much like our familiar „horse,“ and more „modern“ horses. Where & When? Fossils of Mesohippus are found at many Oligocene localities in Colorado and the Great Plain
This genus lived about 37-32 million years ago.
