Get Involved! There are many things you can do at home and in your local community to help protect the natural habitats of south Florida. At Home! Recycle, reduce, and reuse! If your community does not have a recycling program, start one! Conserve water – more info below on how to conserve
When washing dishes by hand, fill one sink or basin with soapy water.
The first documented shark attach in the Americas, cal AD 789-1033. There are no eyewitness accounts, only the testimony of the bones. Yet our knowledge of prehistoric lifeways and forensic anthropology allow us to reconstruct what probably happened. The incident went something like this: „Th
The skeleton is complete with the exception of the lower right arm and hand.
In honor of Earth Week (you know, the week of Earth Day) and the beginnings of this blog, I’m celebrating each day with an activity that challenges me to get outside, think creatively, stretch my senses, and practice writing. So often in museum education, we get caught up in the logistics and
When you feel like you’re ready, give yourself 2-5 minutes to try your hand at
Tremarctos floridanus Quick Facts Common Name: Florida spectacled bear Much more common as a fossil in Florida than the living black bear. Thought to be primarily a herbivore like the living South American spectacled bear. Sometimes called the „Florida cave bear“ but they are not clos
Ursine bears, on the other hand, have only one masseteric fossa (Figure 2B) on their
Southeastern Florida Archaeopedology From 1993 to 2007 Florida archaeopedology research was conducted by Sylvia Scudder, now retired. Scudder’s studies employ analyses of chemical and grain-size characteristics to answer questions about site configuration and settlement patterns, environm
east coast of the Gulf of Mexico (Figure 5-1), features monumental earthworks, hand-dug
Faculty and Staff Dr. Andrea Torvinen, Collections Manager Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA E-mail: a.torvinen@ufl.edu https://florida.academia.edu/AndreaTorvinen Andrea is the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology L
modern specimens, she learned how to recognize the characteristic markers of these hand-built
Panthera onca Quick Facts Common Name: jaguar Fossils of jaguars in Florida are much more common than those of other contemporaneous large felids, such as the American lion and the sabertooths Smilodon fatalis and Dinobastis serus. The Pleistocene jaguars of North America were much large
On the other hand, the association of Panthera atrox with plains-adapted animals
Teleoceras proterum Quick Facts Common Name: Archer short-legged rhino The mounted skeleton on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History (see image) was constructed as part of a „live“ public display during the late 1970s using fossils from both the McGehee Farm and Love Bone Bed loc
On the other hand, further study resulted in some evidence that the isotopes in the
Montbrook Site University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality LV070 Location South of Williston, Levy County, Florida Age Latest Miocene or earliest Pliocene epochs; late Hemphillian (Hemphillian 4 interval) land mammal age About 5.5 to 5 million years old (estimated) Basis of
The site was gridded into 1 X 1 meter squares and excavated with standard hand tools
Xenosmilus hodsonae Quick Facts Common Name: Cookie-cutter Cat A lion-sized, sabertoothed cat known only from Florida. A mounted skeleton is on permanent display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Age Range Early Pleistocene Epoch; late Blancan to early Irvingtonian land mam
The radius and hand bones are also curved in such a way to suggest that the animal
