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distribution along both American coasts until the Isthmus of Panama formed 3-4 million
Hypohippus was a highly specialized browsing horse. Its spreading 3 toes would have been well-adapted to the soft ground of the forests where it lived. It was a large horse for its time, with a size comparable to a modern pony. Where & When? Fossils of Hypohippus are found in Nebraska, Color
Species in this genus lived from 17-11 million years ago.
The Florida Museum has grown from a small teaching collection into an international powerhouse for research and education. In 1917, state legislation created the Florida State Museum (now Florida Museum of Natural History). But our roots go back to 1891, when a professor at Florida Agricultural Coll
With more than 40 million objects, the Museum maintains the largest natural history
Meet the University of Florida researchers who are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a better understanding of plant evolution by sequencing the genome of the single living sister species to all other flowering plants, Amborella trichopoda. The work at UF is a collaborative
The National Science Foundation is funding the $7.3 million project, led by The Pennsylvania
Defining taxon: first appearance of 17 mammalian genera dispersing more or less simultaneously from Eurasia (Tedford et al., 2004); among those found in Florida are the bear-dog Amphicyon, the hemicyonine bear Phoberocyon, the mustelid Leptarctus, the rhino Floridaceras, and the dromomerycid Aletome
The Hemingfordian is divided into two subintervals: the He1 from 18.9 to 17.5 million
Great American Biotic Interchange Research Experiences for Teachers Project (GABI RET) For five years (2012 to 2016) more than 30 scientists and 44 K-12 teachers worked together collecting fossils along the Panama Canal to better understand past life in the ancient Neotropics. This project coincide
University of Florida Scientists and teachers hunting for 20-million-year-old fossils
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Permian Monsters’ Exhibit Member Reception Jul 20, 2018 Step back in time 290 million
Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial ob
the shell-packed walls of a quarry that offered a cross-section of the last few million
Cormohipparion ingenuum Quick Facts Common Name: Noble Hipparion Cormohipparion ingenuum was the first species of horse to be named from Florida. Given its long, narrow muzzle and relatively short-crowned teeth, Cormohipparion ingenuum most likely fed on a mix of browse and green, fresh gr
early Clarendonian (Cl2) to early Hemphillian (Hh2) land mammal ages About 11 to 6 million
The materials from St. Augustine, Florida (1565-present) were generated by systematic archaeological excavations over the past 40 years (1959-1999) on 33 Spanish colonial, British colonial, African American, American Indian and post-colonial sites in St. Augustine, Florida. They include more than 1
They include more than 1 million items of glass, metals, stone, shell and bone.
