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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Plaster fossil jackets often require a lot of wrangling, even when they are small. These jackets are constructed in the field with plaster, burlap, and even wood board, designed to bundle together the matrix and heavy fossils. While they make for a secure way to transport material out of the field,
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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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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
Founded in 2021, Black in Natural History Museums began as a week-long online event
