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course in paleontology of Panama Vol. 2, No. 9: November 2012 What are All Hands
Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, describes what it takes to create and build a museum marine invertebrate collection. The Florida Museum’s nationally renowned collection is also the country’s fastest growing. Paulay also explains a museum project
and study it again, it’s very useful to be able to sort of compare things in your hands
About 5 to 5.5 million years ago (latest Miocene – earliest Pliocene) the area of the Montbrook fossil dig site in eastern Levy County, Florida was a freshwater ecosystem teeming with fish, amphibians, snakes, turtles, alligators, and water birds. The majority of the fossils found at the site are f
Sandy hands of a volunteer with various fossils.
Spend a moment in our Butterfly Rainforest with Ryan talking about the Zebra longwing butterfly, Heliconius charithonia, a Florida native and our state butterfly. This species lives in areas of the southern U.S., and south through Central America and into South America. Zebra longwing butterflies
And that includes this butterfly if I can get my hands on him… [laughter] Going
In 2017, we celebrated our 100th birthday as your state museum. We created an exhibit for this special occasion called Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @Florida Museum, featuring striking and important objects from our collections. It was a wonderful chance to look back at our first cent
It was fascinating to compare the bones in the flippers to those in our hands and
As children, many of us grow up listening to fantastical stories about pirates sailing the seas, exploring islands, and following maps to big red X’s that mark the spot for buried treasure. My little brother and I would play pirates in our backyard as we ventured past the vast tomato garden and a
This is where it’s time to get hands dirty!
Starry Night will not be held in 2021. Meet astronomers, enjoy interactive activities and see a portable planetarium show. This is a FREE, fun-filled night of astronomical proportions! Doors open and event begins at 6 p.m. A sample list of activities are available below along with more inf
To get inside, visitors will crawl on their hands and knees through an inflated tunnel
Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle. Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for small mammals, Hysterangium bonobo is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the
its smell wafting through the air or by digging in the soil and sniffing their hands
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly trapped in sap with a beetle, perhaps its intended next meal. Unlucky for the frog, but lucky for science. An extinct species now named Electrorana limoae, it’s one of four fossils that provide the earliest di
The other amber fossils contain two hands and an imprint of a frog that likely decayed
Annisa Karim has always nurtured a fondness for the natural world. In her hometown of Nairobi, Kenya, Karim’s father took her and her sister to nearby national parks almost every weekend, instilling a deep appreciation for nature and laying the foundation for her future career in conservation biolog
To ensure her data made it into the right hands, she strategically published her
