Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ...
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Here’s the history of manatees in Florida
Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...
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Florida Museum fossils go to space
The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.
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Mote Marine study on red tide reveals potential link leading to ocean acidification
A new study by Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has revealed a potential link between red tide algal blooms and long-term ...
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
Florida fossil sites are unique in that they possess ... For example, because certain species of ground sloths are not found at the Montbrook site (5.85 million years old) but are found at the ...
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A Utah fossil sheds light on the evolution of plants
New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...
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Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal
DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.