#fossilfriday a lower jaw of the hornless rhino Aphelops mutilus. On display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.
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January 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#fossilfriday a lower jaw of the hornless rhino Aphelops mutilus. On display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.
#floridamuseumofnaturalhistory #floridamuseum #prehistoricflorida #fossil #rhino #paleontology
#floridamuseumofnaturalhistory #floridamuseum #prehistoricflorida #fossil #rhino #paleontology
Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛
Check out this truly extraordinary butterfly in the #McGuireCollection @FloridaMuseum. It's a mosaic gynandromorph- the right side male, the left side with mixed patches of male and female. It's probably Heraclides androgeus, but might be a hybrid between that and H. astyalus!
November 22, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Check out this truly extraordinary butterfly in the #McGuireCollection @FloridaMuseum. It's a mosaic gynandromorph- the right side male, the left side with mixed patches of male and female. It's probably Heraclides androgeus, but might be a hybrid between that and H. astyalus!
#RollCall It's #BlackinNHMs week! I'm a vertebrate paleontologist and collections manager for @FloridaMuseum. The best aspect of my job is getting to handle fossils of and learn more about extinct animals. My research interests are paleoecology and ecomorphology
November 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM
#RollCall It's #BlackinNHMs week! I'm a vertebrate paleontologist and collections manager for @FloridaMuseum. The best aspect of my job is getting to handle fossils of and learn more about extinct animals. My research interests are paleoecology and ecomorphology
While on the topic of awesome Sketchfab collections, I have seen @floridamuseum.bsky.social uploading waves of 3D surface scan data to their Snakes, Lizards and Frogs of Florida series recently - sketchfab.com/FloridaMuseu...
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June 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
While on the topic of awesome Sketchfab collections, I have seen @floridamuseum.bsky.social uploading waves of 3D surface scan data to their Snakes, Lizards and Frogs of Florida series recently - sketchfab.com/FloridaMuseu...
Partitioning Parnassiinae today in the #McGuireCollection @FloridaMuseum
#MuseumSelfie #MuseumSelfieDay #MuseumSelfieDay2017
#MuseumSelfie #MuseumSelfieDay #MuseumSelfieDay2017
November 23, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Partitioning Parnassiinae today in the #McGuireCollection @FloridaMuseum
#MuseumSelfie #MuseumSelfieDay #MuseumSelfieDay2017
#MuseumSelfie #MuseumSelfieDay #MuseumSelfieDay2017
#FossilFriday associated skull and jaws of a baby #mastodon from the #Montbrook site, found in 2017 and now fully prepped. We thought it was a gomphothere at first until we uncovered its teeth back at lab #Miocene @FloridaMuseum @BlochLab 🐘
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 AM
#FossilFriday associated skull and jaws of a baby #mastodon from the #Montbrook site, found in 2017 and now fully prepped. We thought it was a gomphothere at first until we uncovered its teeth back at lab #Miocene @FloridaMuseum @BlochLab 🐘
Give me a CT scan of a Porcupinefish but make it metal.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spot-fin-porcupinefish-0b72af6be7bb49d8a80b4579374be018
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Spot-fin porcupinefish - 3D model by FloridaMuseum
Head skeleton of a Spot-fin porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix, from the Florida Museum of Natural History (UF Fish 116860).
Segmentation and mesh files generated by the Florida Museum Digital Imaging div...
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August 3, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Give me a CT scan of a Porcupinefish but make it metal.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spot-fin-porcupinefish-0b72af6be7bb49d8a80b4579374be018
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The jaw of a #brontothere is slowly but surely coming out of its jacket thanks to one of our esteemed volunteers! This specimen comes to us all the way from Nebraska. #FossilFriday @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
November 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM
The jaw of a #brontothere is slowly but surely coming out of its jacket thanks to one of our esteemed volunteers! This specimen comes to us all the way from Nebraska. #FossilFriday @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
Museum Resource 🐚 Invertebrate Paleontology image galleries
Browse featured fossils in our collections directly in our specimen database, from bivalves to worms, including holotypes:
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@FloridaMuseum #fossils #shells #Palaeontology #museums
Browse featured fossils in our collections directly in our specimen database, from bivalves to worms, including holotypes:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/...
@FloridaMuseum #fossils #shells #Palaeontology #museums
January 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Museum Resource 🐚 Invertebrate Paleontology image galleries
Browse featured fossils in our collections directly in our specimen database, from bivalves to worms, including holotypes:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/...
@FloridaMuseum #fossils #shells #Palaeontology #museums
Browse featured fossils in our collections directly in our specimen database, from bivalves to worms, including holotypes:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/...
@FloridaMuseum #fossils #shells #Palaeontology #museums
Check out this "donut" Sandbar #Shark (Carcharhinidae) embryo in #3D, #VR or #AR via @sketchfab.bsky.social, photogrammetry by Kayla Evans @floridamuseum.bsky.social. This specimen is from a set of embryos with spinal deformations. @ufresearch.bsky.social
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Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinidae - 3D model by FloridaMuseum
A fluid preserved Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, from the Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Collection (UF 108719). This specimen is a fetus that has a spinal column deformity.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Check out this "donut" Sandbar #Shark (Carcharhinidae) embryo in #3D, #VR or #AR via @sketchfab.bsky.social, photogrammetry by Kayla Evans @floridamuseum.bsky.social. This specimen is from a set of embryos with spinal deformations. @ufresearch.bsky.social
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Online Exhibit 🪸 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating
Feature: New #Urchin (Actonocidaris new species) from the Western Pacific
"Humans just don’t encounter these animals and the reason is that they live inside the reef."
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
@FloridaMuseum
Feature: New #Urchin (Actonocidaris new species) from the Western Pacific
"Humans just don’t encounter these animals and the reason is that they live inside the reef."
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
@FloridaMuseum
April 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Online Exhibit 🪸 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating
Feature: New #Urchin (Actonocidaris new species) from the Western Pacific
"Humans just don’t encounter these animals and the reason is that they live inside the reef."
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
@FloridaMuseum
Feature: New #Urchin (Actonocidaris new species) from the Western Pacific
"Humans just don’t encounter these animals and the reason is that they live inside the reef."
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
@FloridaMuseum
Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!
Please RT! The BioVision Lab @UF @FloridaMuseum is looking for PhD Students in several areas (biology, paleontology, machine learning, etc). Please share with folks that might be interested in joining us. You can find more about the lab at www.biovisionlab.com
BioVision Lab
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September 15, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Please RT! The BioVision Lab @UF @FloridaMuseum is looking for PhD Students in several areas (biology, paleontology, machine learning, etc). Please share with folks that might be interested in joining us. You can find more about the lab at www.biovisionlab.com
A kaleidoscope of colors, a dance of delicate wings. 🦋 The butterfly rainforest is a world where nature's artistry is on full display.
#FloridaMuseum #ButterflyRainforest #NaturePhotography #GainesvilleFL #Butterflies #RuePhotography
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#FloridaMuseum #ButterflyRainforest #NaturePhotography #GainesvilleFL #Butterflies #RuePhotography
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August 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A kaleidoscope of colors, a dance of delicate wings. 🦋 The butterfly rainforest is a world where nature's artistry is on full display.
#FloridaMuseum #ButterflyRainforest #NaturePhotography #GainesvilleFL #Butterflies #RuePhotography
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#FloridaMuseum #ButterflyRainforest #NaturePhotography #GainesvilleFL #Butterflies #RuePhotography
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Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾
Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies
The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...
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November 16, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾
#FossilFriday a complete #rhino humerus found by @jibloch last Saturday at #Montbrook. Now sitting in the lab waiting to be prepped. #Miocene @FloridaMuseum @BlochLab 🦏
November 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM
#FossilFriday a complete #rhino humerus found by @jibloch last Saturday at #Montbrook. Now sitting in the lab waiting to be prepped. #Miocene @FloridaMuseum @BlochLab 🦏
🦴 The Florida Museum of Natural History has 40M+ artifacts — and now, AI curators are helping sort through them, analyzing 1.4 million specimen images using computer vision and machine learning.
👉 Full story: bit.ly/4vzwi7T
#FloridaTrend #AI #FloridaMuseum #NaturalHistory #UF
👉 Full story: bit.ly/4vzwi7T
#FloridaTrend #AI #FloridaMuseum #NaturalHistory #UF
Extracting History
The Florida Museum’s AI curators are using the technology to sort through digital collections, reconstruct fragmented artifacts and more.
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April 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM
🦴 The Florida Museum of Natural History has 40M+ artifacts — and now, AI curators are helping sort through them, analyzing 1.4 million specimen images using computer vision and machine learning.
👉 Full story: bit.ly/4vzwi7T
#FloridaTrend #AI #FloridaMuseum #NaturalHistory #UF
👉 Full story: bit.ly/4vzwi7T
#FloridaTrend #AI #FloridaMuseum #NaturalHistory #UF
Claw cores of the late #Miocene megalonychid #sloth Pliometanastes from the Moss Acres Racetrack Site. This species was one of the first sloths to appear in North America, arriving probably via island-hopping across the Caribbean #FossilFriday #GABI @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Claw cores of the late #Miocene megalonychid #sloth Pliometanastes from the Moss Acres Racetrack Site. This species was one of the first sloths to appear in North America, arriving probably via island-hopping across the Caribbean #FossilFriday #GABI @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
A complete radius of the small saber-toothed cat Rhizosmilodon fiteae, collected earlier this year from the #Montbrook site. We now have most the bones of the left forelimb of this rare taxon. Photo by Ken Marks #FossilFriday #Miocene @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
November 16, 2024 at 9:23 AM
A complete radius of the small saber-toothed cat Rhizosmilodon fiteae, collected earlier this year from the #Montbrook site. We now have most the bones of the left forelimb of this rare taxon. Photo by Ken Marks #FossilFriday #Miocene @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum
#fossilfriday a few nice donations came in this week from the Netherlands: partial #skulls and jaws from the giant #Pleistocene #deer #Megaloceros giganteus. The skull of a modern White-tailed Deer sits between two of its distant relatives for scale @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum 🦌
November 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM
#fossilfriday a few nice donations came in this week from the Netherlands: partial #skulls and jaws from the giant #Pleistocene #deer #Megaloceros giganteus. The skull of a modern White-tailed Deer sits between two of its distant relatives for scale @BlochLab @FloridaMuseum 🦌
A row of associated (and rather large) #viper vertebrae from the late #Pleistocene of Florida. These are most likely from the genus Agkistrodon, which includes the modern copperheads and cottonmouths
#FossilFriday #snake #fossil @FloridaMuseum
#FossilFriday #snake #fossil @FloridaMuseum
November 16, 2024 at 8:52 AM
A row of associated (and rather large) #viper vertebrae from the late #Pleistocene of Florida. These are most likely from the genus Agkistrodon, which includes the modern copperheads and cottonmouths
#FossilFriday #snake #fossil @FloridaMuseum
#FossilFriday #snake #fossil @FloridaMuseum
September 7, 2024 at 12:50 AM
It took 3.7 billion years for this genome to evolve. UF students assembled it in one semester. #UofF #floridamuseum www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/it-t...
September 17, 2026 at 5:51 PM
It took 3.7 billion years for this genome to evolve. UF students assembled it in one semester. #UofF #floridamuseum www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/it-t...
I had to share this @FloridaMuseum video again. It seriously is that good!
Inspiring Today, Saving Tomorrow
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Inspiring Today, Saving Tomorrow
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Inspiring Today, Saving Tomorrow
We are losing natural areas at an unprecedented rate. Many believe the alarming number of species being lost will lead to our planet's sixth mass extinction--and the next 40 or 50 years may be the most crucial window in human history. The science and research taking place at the Florida Museum plays a crucial role in helping society face and solve these worldwide challenges. It’s not just science for science’s sake, but science to help us create a better world in which to live.
Florida Museum: Celebrating 100 Years 1917-2017
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December 1, 2024 at 11:45 PM
I had to share this @FloridaMuseum video again. It seriously is that good!
Inspiring Today, Saving Tomorrow
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Inspiring Today, Saving Tomorrow
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