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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

On display Sept. 23, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018, Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @FloridaMuseum celebrated the Museum’s rich history and featured objects that reveal stories about everything from human health to prehistoric life to invasive species. Each Museum collection was asked to contribute
With more than 40 million objects, the Museum maintains the largest natural history

The Exhibits and Public Programs Endowment, established in honor of the Florida Museum’s 100th anniversary in 2017, was created to ensure that the Museum would be able to reach its audiences with the very best in educational programs, stimulating exhibitions and dynamic public outreach well into the
the Museum, a generous donor has agreed to match all gifts up to a total of $2 million

May 25 – Sept. 2, 2024 This dynamic exhibition series, Science Up Close, showcases research and collections from the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida in a whole new way. Take a unique look behind the scenes, interact with scientists while they work and explore some of
With an estimated 5.5 million species, insects are the most diverse group of animals

Mammoths once roamed Florida but went extinct about 10,000 years ago, in part due to human hunting. This is the real jaw of the mammoth skeleton on permanent display in the Denny Gallery in our main Museum lobby. Summary Columbian Mammoth Jaw (Mammuthus columbi) From Aucilla River, Florida Liv
vertebrate-paleontology-columbian-mammoth-jaw.mp3 Mammoths first appeared in Florida about a million

alligator The American alligator is an incredibly adaptable crocodylian, has lived for millions
Pleistocene Epoch; Hemphillian through Rancholabrean land mammal ages About 5 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.

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Continue Hard clam shellfish aquaculture, also known as clam farming, is a $20 million

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