Visitors to the Florida Museum, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, can enjoy hundreds of exotic butterflies in a rainforest setting, witness a South Florida Calusa Indian welcoming ceremony, experience a life-size limestone cave, and see a mammoth and mastodon from the last Ice Age
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Extensive holdings and an array of exhibits distinguish this museum of natural history, one of the region's most prominent facilities. The flora, fauna and terrain of north central Florida are documented through millions of years of history, and fossils, artifacts and specimens provide insight into
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The Florida Museum of Natural History has an artificial limestone cave on display, which shows many details of the formation and content of a typical northwest Florida cave. The cave shows speleothems like stalactites and stalagmites. Typical inhabitants are opossums, crickets, blind cave crayfish,
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Take the grandchildren to the Florida Museum of Natural History and learn what has been going on in Florida for the past 65 million years. An exhibit in the lobby tells the story of the giant mastodon that once swam in the waters that covered the state. You"ll also learn about the 15-foot giant slo
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