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
The Florida Museum’s Paleobotany Collection includes about 250,000 specimens, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene.* It is international in scope, with collections from more than 50 countries. The strengths are Cretaceous to Eocene of the U.S. western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of s
detailed information on the subtropical plants that populated eastern Oregon 47 million
In a limestone quarry near Newberry, Fla., paleontologists and volunteers from the Florida Museum of Natural History are scrambling to finish excavating a site known as Haile 7G – one of the state’s richest fossil sites due to the sheer number of complete skeletons found in its unique sediments. But
freely between the two continents after being isolated from each other for nearly 65 million
I have always loved to read, but it is a pastime that I seldom find time for these days. As my schedule this summer began filling up—classes, interning, tutoring, general life stuff, etc. I realized, much to my dismay, this summer was not going to serve as an opportunity to catch up on the titles
One million years ago would put us at 997,980 BCE, so we have officially left the
Inglis 1A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality CI001 Location Inglis 1A is located about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south of the town of Inglis, on the north bank of the Cross Florida Barge Canal west of US Highway 98, Citrus County, Florida. 29.01º N; 82.69º W. Age Early Pleistocen
Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; latest Blancan land mammal age 1.9-1.6 million years
Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
networks of prehistoric communities in the American Southwest, he analyzed more than 4 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
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
