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Florida Museum of Natural History

The Tale of Two Skates: How a Genetic Twist Solved a Century-Old Mystery

The Tale of Two Skates: How a Genetic Twist Solved a Century-Old Mystery

Categories Life & Non-humans

This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a such a strange assortment of features that scientists were unable to find a plant family, living or extinct, to which it might belong.

Ancient ‘Alien Plant’ Shatters Beliefs About Earth’s Botanical History

Categories Life & Non-humans

The openVertebrate project was a five-year initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to make 3D models of museum specimens freely available to scientists, students, teachers and the public.

Unlocking Nature’s Treasures: 3D Digital Library Revolutionizes Museum Collections

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

Researchers and volunteers with the Florida Museum of Natural History have discovered the ancient remains of several gomphotheres at a fossil site in North Florida.

Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida

Categories Life & Non-humans

Cane toads extend their tongues up to 80% the length of their skulls when unrolling them to catch prey and retract them an impressive 87% of their skull length when slingshotting their tongue into their throats.

Cane toads swallow food using a complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

The rim rock crowned snake was found dead in the Florida Keys, locked in lifeless combat with a giant centipede it had managed to swallow halfway.

N. America’s rarest snake found biting off more than it could chew

Categories Life & Non-humans

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