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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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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
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
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
Bufo defensor Quick Facts Common Name: Inglis toad Bufo defensor has only been recovered from two fossil localities, both from the early Pleistocene of the Florida peninsula. But one of those, Inglis 1A, produced almost 700 fossil specimens of this species. Bufo defensor looked similar to th
Range Early Pleistocene Epoch; latest Blancan land mammal age About 2.0 to 1.6 million
For a few weeks each year, dozens of people stop their everyday activities to put on clothes they don’t mind getting dirty, drive to the middle of nowhere and dig in the dirt and mud for fossils. Neither professional archaeologists nor paleontologists, the volunteers are like angels for the Flori
reptiles to three-toed horses and bear-dogs – has led scientists to believe the 18.5-million-year-old
Xiphias gladius This migratory billfish can grow to 177 inches long, from the tip of its slender bill to the end of its crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a dark brown black above, fading to a lighter shade underneath, and its first dorsal and anal fins are significantly more pronounced and curved
That year, US processors handled 4,549 tons of swordfish meat, valued at $53.4 million
To pair with the rest of our educational content in each Earth to Florida newsletter, we bring you monthly updates on statewide environmental news. Read below to see what we found this past month: A 1,086-acre property in Putnam County has been secured to support the Ocala to Osceola (O2O) Wild
sea-level rise, aiming to elevate two miles of roads at an estimated cost exceeding $88 million
