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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

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

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands. The teeth, excavated in northwest Puerto Rico, belong to a previously unknown rodent genus and species, now named Caribeomys merzeraudi. About the size of
Caribbean’s smallest known rodent and one of the region’s oldest, dating back about 29 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

New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to a study lead by a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. The study sheds light on a hotly debated topic in evolutionary biology: the origin of modern Homo sapi
ancestors of our species, Homo sapiens, diverged from other archaic humans about 1.2 million

Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Julie Allen recently received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the University of Florida biology department. Allen won the award for her paper on mutualistic bacteria, which live in some insects. The article appeared in the academic journal PLoS ON
“The paper suggests that after a few million years, natural selection decreases

Invertebrate Paleontology is the study of fossil animals that lack notochords (non-vertebrates). This includes large, diverse taxonomic groups such as mollusks (e.g., bivalves and gastropods), brachiopods (e.g., lamp shells), corals, arthropods (e.g., crabs, shrimps, and barnacles), echinoderms (e.
Collection is largely composed of fossil invertebrates from the Cenozoic Era (last 65 million

In 2017, the Florida Museum marked its 100th anniversary as the state’s official natural history museum. Join us before the last day and explore the key role museum collections play in telling the story of life on Earth. Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: Leaves Jan. 7, 2018 From rare, ancient t
Objects from the Museum’s 40 million specimens also reveal the stories of everything