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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

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

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

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

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

Our website is vast, with many thousands of pages and millions of
an exhibit highlighting a selection of objects from our collections of over 40 million