The University of Florida Herbarium applies donations to fund student, staff, and faculty research in plant systematics, and to help grow and diversify the herbarium. Past and current donations have helped to fund and train students on mounting historic plant specimens as well as trips to collect sp
Consisting of more than a half million specimens, the University of Florida Herbarium
Join Florida Museum Director Douglas S. Jones for the launch of All Things Beautiful: Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Lushly illustrated with over 300 color plates, this volume is a celebration of the beauty of natural history collections and the work of curato
remarkable animals, plants, fossils, and cultural heritage materials that make up the 40 million
Merychippus represents a milestone in the evolution of horses. Though it retained the primitive character of 3 toes, it looked like a modern horse. Merychippus had a long face. Its long legs allowed it to escape from predators and migrate long distances to feed. It had high-crowned cheek teeth, maki
Species in this genus lived from 17-11 million years ago Did the “ruminant horse
Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and collaborating institutions have been collectively awarded $2,837,441 in funding from the National Science Foundation this month. Awards were distributed to faculty members in archaeology, vertebrate paleontology, Lepidoptera, biodiversity info
Roughly 56 million years ago, temperatures abruptly rose by as much as 8 degrees
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
Introduction and Definitions Land mammal ages (abbreviated LMAs) are intervals of geologic time characterized by a distinctive set of mammals (usually genera) for a particular geographic region (Lindsay, 2003). The geographic regions for the most commonly used LMAs are entire continents, so there a
Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs (4.75 million years ago to 12 thousand years ago)
Alligator olseni Quick Facts Common Name: Olsen’s Alligator Adult Alligator olseni specimens are generally smaller than adult Alligator mississippiensis specimens, with few individuals exceeding more than seven to eight feet in length, while fossils of Alligator mississippiensis from Florid
Age Range Early Miocene; Hemingfordian land mammal age About 19 to 16 million
In the early 1980s, amateur paleontologists discovered fossils at a commercial shell pit near Tampa. Public volunteers aided museum staff to complete an extensive excavation in just 6 months, recovering over 20,000 specimens. This demonstrated the great value of volunteers at fossil digs, now common
Summary Leisey Shell Pit Specimens From Hillsborough Co., Florida Lived ~1.5–1 million
Van Hyning became the Museum’s first director in 1914, and ran it virtually unassisted for 29 years. He started the Museum’s mollusk collection, now among the five largest in the U.S. and second largest in the world in online access. Summary Van Hyning Cockle Shell (Dinocardium robustum vanhynin
invertebrate-zoology-van-hyning-cockle-shell.mp3 Florida Museum of Natural History houses a collection of 3 million
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