Florida Museum of Natural History
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Step Back In Time
Present meets past at Powell Hall, the Florida Museum of Natural History's Education and Exhibition Center. Stroll through a replica of a north Florida limestone cave containing small sinkholes, stalactites, and other geological features and see inhabitants including a family of opossums, a diamondback rattlesnake, a barn owl, a raccoon, crickets, blind cave crayfish, and southeastern bats.
Just outside the cave, six-inch-long fossil teeth in the reconstructed jaws of an extinct, 60-foot white shark mark the Fossil Study Center's beginning. See the only mounted skeleton of a prehistoric sabercat that roamed Florida nine million years ago and the skeletons of a nine-foot-tall sloth, a hippopotamus-like rhinoceros, an extinct crocodile, and a three-toed horse. The museum is home to more than 10 million specimens.
The Museum's artisans, technicians and educators distill Florida's rich environment
and cultural diversity. Always using the most recently available information,
the department designs exhibits, plans classes, organizes special programs,
and prepares educational materials that reach visitors from across the state
and nation. The natural history and culture of Florida and the Caribbean are
presented through the department's production of model programs, exhibits, and
educational materials.
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