Students often learn in history class that the Spaniards brought horses to the New World in the 1500s, but the fossil record shows horses actually originated in North America at least 55 million years ago and roamed the continent before becoming extinct at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 y
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The Florida Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology collections provide the most complete basis available for study of Cenozoic vertebrate life and evolution in the eastern United States and the circum-Caribbean Basin area. Combined, the five separate collections total about 1,500,000 fossil specimens, of
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The Florida Museum maintains five separate fossil vertebrate collections. The specimens derive mainly from the Cenozoic Era (last 65 million years), with more than 80% coming from about 1200 localities in Florida. Other major contributing regions are islands in the Caribbean Basin, Central and Sout
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Keith Willmott Curator of Lepidoptera McGuire Center for Lepidoptera &Â Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Road Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 352-273-2012 kwillmott@flmnh.ufl.edu I work on Neotropical butterfly systematics in the broadest sense of the word – my in
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13920086 (online 18 October 2024). 2024. Pyrcz, T.
The Florida Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology collections provide the most complete basis available for study of Cenozoic vertebrate life and evolution in the eastern United States and the circum-Caribbean Basin area. Combined, the five separate collections total about 1,500,000 fossil specimens, of
Education Aucilla River Prehistory Project Pony Express Archive Fossil Horses Online
Goals of the NSF-funded „All Cypriniformes Species Inventory,“ that began in September, 2010, are to (1) accelerate the rate of discovery and description of cypriniform fishes and improve our understanding of their evolutionary and ecological relationships, (2) make information on cypriniforms readi
All Cypriniformes has a cybertaxonomy element in the form of (1) an online taxonomy
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Scientists sometimes use enzymes and dyes to study animal anatomy and compare relationships among species. Today they also use techniques such as DNA studies and micro-CT scanning, which do not alter or damage unique specimens. Summary Cleared and Stained Salamander (Aneides lugubris) From Mari
Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Online Exhibit
Collections held by natural history museums are like a library of life, with millions of objects that document change through time in the environment and in life itself. These records of life on Earth become even more vital as we face global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Online Exhibit
The Florida Museum houses more than 180,000 scientific specimens of amphibians and reptiles, making it the largest herpetology collection in the southeastern United States and among the largest in North America. These specimens—with some dating to the late 19th century—are used by researchers around
can also learn about our amphibian and reptile collection and even search our online
