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

Gainesville, FL
Joined June 2019
Bloch Lab @UF retweeted
#SciArt Spotlight 🐗 Florida Oligocene Art in our Florida Fossils exhibit helps to illustrate what Florida might have looked like as the sea levels dropped and animals migrated to this newly exposed land. 🗝️ Check out the art + key: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibi… 🖼️: by Carl Buell
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Bloch Lab @UF retweeted
We're hiring! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: brnw.ch/21x3rMK 🔸 Apply via @UF: brnw.ch/21x3rMI 🔸 About the Department of Natural History: brnw.ch/21x3rMJ 🏛️📌 Apply by Aug. 21, 2026
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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/…
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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/exhibi…
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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/florid…
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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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Congrats Lazaro! 👏👏👏 So proud of our students graduating from @UF this week and grateful they choose to do their grad work with our faculty! Dr. Lazaro Viñola-López, advised by @jibloch, received his doctoral degree through the @UF_CLAS, @UFBiology 👉 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept…
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A fossil tooth and two vertebrae unearthed in the Dominican Republic have paleontologists rethinking sebecids, giant croclike terrestrial predators, and their story in the Caribbean. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc… Study: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.28…
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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/florid…
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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…
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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/exhibi…
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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/scienc…
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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/exhibi…
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A new study of the most complete skeleton of a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, Mixodectes pungens, has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc… Study: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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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/scienc…
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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/scienc…
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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/scienc…
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