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An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually a lizard. The new species, named Oculudentavis naga in honor of the Naga people of Myanmar and India, is represente
While Myanmar’s amber deposits are a treasure trove of fossil lizards found nowhere else

I have always loved to read, but it is a pastime that I seldom find time for these days. As my schedule this summer began filling up—classes, interning, tutoring, general life stuff, etc. I realized, much to my dismay, this summer was not going to serve as an opportunity to catch up on the titles
the same geological epoch we exist in now, the Holocene—is it weird for anyone else

A Spring of Fossils An icon of North Florida vertebrate paleontology, the Montbrook dig site near Williston, Fl sits on a private sand mine and has revealed thousands of finds over the past decade. Covering only 2 or 3 dozen square meters at a time, volunteers, undergraduate students, and intereste
this steamy Saturday was at the site out of a commitment to unearthing whatever else

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for overlooking it in favor of Cuba’s prismatic parrots. But looks aren’t everything. For decades, this u
anticipate it being so unique from an evolutionary perspective relative to anything else

Leisey Shell Pit 1A University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality HI007 Location About 7 km southwest of Ruskin near Cockroach Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida; 27.69° N, 82.50° W. Age Early Pleistocene Epoch; early Irvingtonian land mammal age About 1.5 to 1 million years ago (H
Several species present at the site are found in greater numbers than anywhere else

Although St. Augustine was small, remote and poor, life in the town was governed by traditional Spanish municipal organization, with a mayor and city officials in addition to the military and crown-appointed government officials. The daily, weekly and monthly practices of the Catholic Church were a
Everybody else fastened their simple clothing with laces tipped by metal ends known

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added a new location to its known range: Ocala National Forest. They also confirmed the insect feeds on a second, but highly endangered, host plant. Researchers made th
The region harbors plant and animal species found nowhere else, but ranks among the

In his book, “The Immense Journey,” anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, “If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water.” There are few people who seemed to have grasped this truth as completely as Harry George Lee of Jacksonville, Florida, a physician, globe-trotter, researcher and an av
do not follow it as a vocation but instead are forced or choose to do something else

Tooth Morphology & Glossary Common questions about modern and fossil shark teeth
Why do we only find shark’s teeth and not much else in the fossil shark record?

Before the summer of 1916, there was still debate about whether sharks could kill humans. Most people were not even sure if a shark could bite a human. One of them was New York multimillionaire Hermann Oelrichs, who offered a $500 reward in 1891 for anyone who proved a shark attacked a human. Tha
“The fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be eaten by something else,” Burgess