The Florida Museum’s Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotan
The online collection database contains more than 70,000 digitized records of the
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Chaetopterus pump water through their parchment tube and filter small plankton through a mucus net they hold. Their tube is home for other organisms such as crabs and other worms. Summary Segmented Worm (Chaetopterus pergamentaceus) From Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Apr. 2015 Collection Invertebrate
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This large, flightless seabird once nested on seaside cliffs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The last Great Auks lived on Funk Island off Newfoundland, where they were wiped out by sailors in 1844. Summary Great Auk Bones (Pinguinus impennis) Found in an archaeological midden, Newfoundland
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Earth Day, Every Day! This year the Florida Museum, in partnership with the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute, has declared the month of April, Earth Day, Every Day! We invite you to a full month of Earth Day activities and challenges. Each day we have a suggested activity or r
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In 2017, the Florida Museum of Natural History marked its 100th anniversary as the state’s official natural history museum. As part of the centennial celebration, the Florida Museum created an extraordinary exhibit exploring the key role museum collections play in telling the story of life on Earth.
Though the physical exhibit is closed, the companion website remains online, providing
Environmental archaeology is the interdisciplinary study of past human interactions with the natural world — a world that encompasses plants, animals and landscapes. It is traditionally divided into zooarchaeology (animal remains), archaeobotany (plant remains) and geoarchaeology (a variety of data
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The genus Hippidion has been considered a descendant of Pliohippus, while others postulate it is a member of the genus Equus, the genus that includes the living horses, asses and zebras. Where & When? These huge extinct browsing horses lived in South America during the Ice Age, between 2 mil
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Are you interested in prehistoric pottery? Learn to identify different types of pottery found throughout Florida and discover how archaeologists use these clues to study people in the past. Join the Florida Public Archaeology Network for a FREE, fun-for-all-ages workshop. Pre-registratio
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