FM 360 Fossil Horses: Evolution and Climate Change

FM 360 Fossil Horses: Evolution and Climate Change

Bring the Florida Museum to you! Take a virtual tour through the “Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land” exhibit with Florida Museum youth outreach coordinator, Alberto Lopez and Dr. Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology and director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. Go back through geological time and witness the fossil history of Florida's horses during the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in this 360° virtual tour, while investigating how scientists learn about paleoclimates through fossils. 

Topics

  • ancient Florida peninsula
  • Archaeal Archaeohippus
  • paleontology
  • vertebrate paleontology
  • paleoclimates
  • Florida fossil horses
  • horse evolution Florida
  • climate change effects horses
  • fossil horse anatomy
  • ancient horses Florida
  • climate impact evolution
  • horse extinction causes
  • montbrook fossil site