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Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral student Rachel Narducci was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Narducci, a Montbrook fossil dig coordinator for the museum, received the NSF GRF to help her continue her work with fossils. The program recogni
inclusion Awards & Honors Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million
Whether you have Disco Fever or want to party like it’s 1999, you won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind silent disco event! Enjoy a night of discovery and dancing at the Florida Museum of Natural History with proceeds benefiting educational initiatives. Fall Crazy in Love with curiosities from our
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Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, which rarely preserves in the fossil record. Gordon Hubbell has perhaps the world’s largest and best-preserved collection of rare shark jaws and teeth, including the only complete fossilized skull of a Great White Shark. Summary Ancient Great White Shark
Summary Ancient Great White Shark (Carcharodon hubbelli) from Peru Lived ~5 million
Stephanie Killingsworth has been named a recipient of the Winifred Goldring Award by the Association for Women Geoscientists. This national award is presented annually to female graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and acumen in paleontology and related fields of research.
disperse freely between North and South America for the first time in over 100 million
Alligator Gar have changed little over millions of years, and researchers use this
referred to as living fossils that can be tracked back into the Cretaceous, nearly 145 million
The sweet smells of spring fill the air as more and more people head to parks and playgrounds to enjoy the weather. While the air grows warmer and the promise of summer quickly approaches, picnic-goers and adventure-seekers head outdoors, facing the risks that come with it – from sunburns and allerg
control and offset damages, including medical costs, and they inflict about $750 million
When conditions are just right, organisms can undergo rapid bursts of diversification, and what starts out as one species can end up as an entire family tree in the evolutionary equivalent of the blink of an eye. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
rapid diversification of glasswing butterflies, which evolved within the last two million
Sylvilagus webbi Quick Facts Common Name: Webb’s marsh rabbit Ecologically similar and probably ancestral to the modern marsh rabbit Sylvilagus palustris. The largest known sample of specimens of the species (>4,500 bones and teeth) comes from the Inglis 1C site in Citrus County. A
Pleistocene Epoch; late Blancan to early Irvingtonian land mammal ages About 2.5 million
Takeaways from the University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit The way we tell the climate story has the power to transform a feeling of collective overwhelm into one of collective empowerment.  The University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit brought
with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rising from approximately 278 parts per million
