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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Dugout Canoes, carved out of a single log, have had the same basic design for the past 7,000 years. Timucuan people of Florida made this 21-foot-long canoe about 500 years ago. Made from a single tree, dugouts transported people, goods, and ideas. Summary On Exhibit Pine Canoe From Putnam Co
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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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Although we are involved with a great deal of projects across the Museum, we’re especially proud of the planning and implementation of these highlights: Florida Snake ID Guide Our most recent project was assisting our Herpetology Department in a complete revamp and upgrade of the Florida snake I
We published an extensive online companion exhibit with original content, photos
Established in 1983, the South Florida Program investigates, reports on, and conserves knowledge of the past environments and cultures of South Florida, with the goal of exploring human-animal interactions in an interdisciplinary framework. Exhibit Objects Archaeological Collections The Syste
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Invertebrate zoology is the study of all animals without backbones. Of the major divisions (phyla) of animal life, about 97 percent are invertebrates. Our Invertebrate Zoology Collection began as a malacology collection (mollusks) under Thompson Van Hyning, the first director of the Florida Museum.
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Congratulations to our 2019 winner, Anyel Torres! This year the Florida Museum hosted its seventh ButterflyFest Facebook Photo Challenge! The challenge is designed to educate and promote awareness of biodiversity and wildlife through photography. Photos had to include some aspect of metamorphosi
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Congratulations to our 2018 winner! This year the Florida Museum hosted its sixth ButterflyFest Facebook Photo Challenge! The challenge was designed to educate and promote awareness of wildlife and biodiversity through photography. Photos had to include some aspect of an ecosystem reflecting bot
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In all kinds of weather, and across all kinds of terrain, the Florida Museum has excavated fossils from Central Florida’s Bone Valley Formation for the past 60 years. The sites of the formation are among the most prolific in Florida for vertebrate fauna and remain an important resource for our under
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