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Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology @UF @Floridamuseum. Tweets by @jibloch and guests.

Gainesville, FL Присоединился Haziran 2019
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Oct. 23 🍺🐛 Bugs, Bones and Brews Spooky season @fmbrewing with our Daniels Lab researchers, vertebrate paleontology collection & the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute team. Hickory Horned Devil Hazy IPA 🍺 Special brew with jalapeno peppers Event: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/bugs-bon…
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Gomphothere Spotlight 🐘 Florida Pliocene In addition to the usual pair of upper tusks common in elephants, some gomphotheres (extinct relatives of elephants) had a second set attached to the lower jaw. 🗝️ Check out the exhibit art + key: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/…
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Museum Resource 🗺️ Vertebrate Fossil Sites of Florida Over 750 different locations in Florida have produced fossils of vertebrate animals. We highlight the stories of some of the more notable sites of paleontological discovery in our state: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb…
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Ancient sloths ranged in size from tiny climbers to ground-dwelling giants. Now, researchers report in Science that this body size diversity was largely shaped by sloths’ habitats, and that these animals’ precipitous decline was likely a result of increasing human pressures. scim.ag/4jcJ84M
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Athletic, crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago. sciencenews.org/article/crocod…
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#FossilFriday Resource 📍 Learn about notable dig sites in our state and some of the vertebrate species from Florida's fossil record. Featured: The Haile 15A site was found in 1964. Specimens include llamas, turtles, and pampatheres. More about site: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-verteb…
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During a visit to share their excitement for paleontology and scientific discovery with our Museum members and fossil fans, Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson also took a tour of our collections and came digging at Montbrook with Jon Bloch and Advait Jukar. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/th…
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Online Exhibit 💅 Wondrous Creatures Artist Ariel Bowman explores the bridge between art and science with whimsical looks at ancient creatures from natural history. From platybelodon to sivatherium, browse the online exhibit: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onlin…
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Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/crawli… How did tortoises get to the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas? Their story begins at a time of much lower sea levels.
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Thank you Maria Vallejo-Pareja, Sarah Steele Cabrera and Domenique Sorresso! 👏👏👏 Announcing our annual graduate student awards, given for significant contributions to the development of museum collections, programs & research. About each recipient: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…
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#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more fossils: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/…
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#ICYMI Fossils in space! 🚀 Fossils of a snail, horse and early ancestor of modern primates from our collections went to space with friend of the Museum Rob Ferl, director of the @UFAstraeus, on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The trip + the fossils: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…
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Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ground sloths, and an odd-looking tapir. Full story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/underw…
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Fossils in space! 🚀 Friend of the Museum Rob Ferl, director of the @UFAstraeus, recently went into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and took a few of our fossils with him—a snail, horse and early ancestor of modern primates. There's more: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florid…
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