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Kirby Smith was a Confederate general, amateur botanist and academic. He collected plants wherever he was stationed during his long career. His plant collection, donated to the Museum, represents a snapshot of plant biodiversity during Kirby Smith’s time. Summary Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amp
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We have a number of active research projects that investigate the structure, function, and evolution of anatomy in amphibians and reptiles. Not only are we interested to document patterns of anatomical diversity, we also seek to understand the processes that generated variation across species. Fo
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This large horse was a very specialized leaf eater, or browser, at a time when most horses were beginning to exclusively eat grass. Megahippus was the last of the browsing horses in North America. Where & When? Fossils of Megahippus are uncommon. They are known from the Miocene of the Great
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The „middle horse“ earned its name. Mesohippus is intermediate between the Eohippus-like horses of the Eocene, which don’t look much like our familiar „horse,“ and more „modern“ horses. Where & When? Fossils of Mesohippus are found at many Oligocene localities in Colorado and the Great Plain
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Animal remains are most likely to be fossilized if their hard parts are covered by layers of sediments soon after death. With time and pressure, these sediments, such as sand, plant debris, or ash, become compressed into rock. Therefore, fossils are found in sedimentary rock, like sandstone, shale,
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Miss Lucy Dickinson Fellowship The Miss Lucy Dickinson Fellowship is available on a competitive basis to graduate students pursuing the Doctoral degree in Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Florida. This fellowship can be awarded along two tracks. Track 1 is for up to three years with a s
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit showcases the contributions of Black people to natural history with a scavenger hunt. Produced by the Black in Natural History Museums organization, the exhibit consists of 17 profiles that feature modern and historical re
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Pliocene Epoch 5 million to 2.58 million years ago Until about 3 to 4 million years ago, North and South America were separated by water and had developed their own unique flora and fauna. But during the Pliocene a land bridge formed across Panama, allowing for organisms to travel from one conti
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North Central Florida has been home to many creatures, modern and ancient alike. We are familiar with some, like our backyard eastern gray squirrels and gopher tortoises, but we won’t catch a glimpse of the extinct three-toed horses (Archaeohippus blackbergi, Parahippus leonensis) or giant salamande
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If you have a computer, you can help move museum research forward in three minutes or less. Community scientists can use Notes from Nature, a digital platform funded by the National Science Foundation, to contribute to research around the world by transcribing handwritten information about museum
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