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Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions – is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading
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mind getting dirty, drive to the middle of nowhere and dig in the dirt and mud for fossils
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The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher whose findings show that the evolution of horses had more twists and turns than previously thought. According to conventional notions, horses simply became bigger over time and switched from
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A new study from Florida Museum of Natural History researchers could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve? For the last 150 years, some paleontologists have concluded the great white shark, Carcharodon carcha
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Edited by Richard C. Hulbert, Jr. University Press of Florida, February, 2001. Hardbound; 384 pages; 341 drawings and black and white photographs; glossary; index; and references. ISBN 0-8130-1822-6, $39.95. Available at the Florida Museum of Natural History gift shop, at bookstores, amazon.com, ba
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The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone from a frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus, also known as rain frogs or co
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Dasyatis teeth picked from Montbrook matrix
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While digging in our west pit on March 9th, volunteer, Bri Blaga found a heavily eroded horse tooth. The layers in her square were dipping almost completely vertically and the sand was yellow/orange instead of our typical white beach sand. There were other fragments nearby so she continu
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The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees‘ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by Florida Museum and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and
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