The great tragedy of the Montbrook dig site is that we showed up five million years late to what would have been a pretty epic fish fry. Bony fish (Osteichthyes) fossils make up about a third of the cataloged fossils from the site, (about 7200 specimens). Most of these cataloged specimens are macro-
modern channel catfish, Ictalurus punctactus, or else
When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes. A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are not publicly accessible, leaving researchers worldwide unable to get to critical data they may need to
going to be the same as an alignment that somebody else
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
learned and how we could improve it, and make something else
Despite last month’s fatality off the Florida coast, the number of shark attacks in the United States continued its downward trend by taking a plunge in the latest recorded year, according to a new report from the Florida Museum of Natural History. There might not be a sea change in the violent e
there have been more attacks there than anywhere else
Arctodus pristinus Quick Facts Common Name: Lesser short-faced bear Largest land carnivore in Florida during the early Pleistocene. Among living bears, most closely related to the spectacled bear of South America. Age Range Early to middle Pleistocene Epoch; Blancan and Irvingtonian
are known from Florida (about 150) than anywhere else
Other Paleobotanical Collections and Databases This is not an exhaustive list of all paleobotanical collections and/or databases. If you would like your site to be listed, please send your web address to Hongshan Wang. The Cuticle Database is an image collection of plant cuticles prepared from vou
Shale (360 million years ago) not known anywhere else
The native habitats and communities of the Florida Keys are being severely impacted directly and indirectly by human activity. The Keys and south Florida are the only locations in the U.S. to support tropical flora with over 120 species of trees in the hardwood hammock alone! Along with
are those organisms that are native to somewhere else
Unlike social insects such as bees and ants, moths are generally loners. So, when Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov spotted a dozen glossy black Idia moths inside a hollow tree, he made a mental note. After he stumbled across 100 of the same species in another hollow
That sparked my interest further in what else might
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
And I don’t think there’s anybody else that can provide
Shark attacks in the U.S. reached a decade high in 2012, while worldwide fatalities remained average, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File report released today. The U.S. saw an upturn in attacks with 53, the most since 2000. There were seven fatalities worldwi
is upon us, as humans, to avoid such situations or else
