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
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
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
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
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
Microvertebrate fossils are really small. They require use of a microscope for identification. Because of this, they receive less love than the huge show off fossils and are often overlooked in the field or discarded with the sediment. While digging at Montbrook, if we hit a pebbly layer th
If they are the same, then this group has not changed much for some 5 million years
Defining taxon: first appearance of Mammuthus south of 55° N latitude (Bell et al., 2004) Basis of name: Savage (1951) based the name on the Irvington District in Fremont, California, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the location of a Pleistocene vertebrate fauna that contained Mamm
The Irvingtonian is divided into three subintervals: the Ir1 from 1.6 to 1.0 million
