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On Saturday March 2nd, I was pleased to have a tour of the Vertebrate Lab at University of Florida, hosted by Rachel Narducci, Director of the lab. I have some 85 photos before my iphone battery died. Here are some of the best. I love to take photos that will help me identify my finds or learn something new about Southeast US fauna. One of my 1st photos is a tadpole from Green River ??? I am walking thru a RESEARCH Lab, fossils are coming in and going out from/ to lots of places in Florida and around the world. Here is one from Florida, The extinct Hesperocyoninae are one of three subfamilies found within the canid family. The other two canid subfamilies are the extinct Borophaginae and extant Caninae. The dates on these fossils are the date found. Thecachampsa Americana, Found 1955, during construction. An Altlas/Axis of a Sloth A Tortoise buckler... 8 connected Osteoderms Whales... I love whale fossils.... How about Whale from South Carolina, Absolutely love that tooth.. Capybara Jaw Dire wolf Jaw... Sloth Skull... Rachel is holding a section of tail from Glyptodont.. I held it also... It is light, not as heavy as my thermos of coffee. Rhino Lower Jaw... A mammoth Astragalus... I wanted to remember the shape... A Sloth Claw... Gorgeous. That my hand holding a Smilodon upper carnassial P4. Scary moment, I was just thinking DON'T DROP IT> and here is a photo of TFF member @digit prepping a Gharial. Just another boring day at work... A juvenile Gomphothere.. amazing and most of another reptile on the next desk over.... Everywhere there are fantastic fossil. I am fortunate to have these memories. Enjoy Jack

My cousin and I found this years ago while walking an old creek bed on his grandmas farm land. We were told it was a mammoth bison skull from the ice age. We know nothing about fossils and honestly can’t even decide if it is a fossil. It’s over 31” from horn tip to horn tip and pretty dang heavy. Can anyone give us some sort of information on this? Thanks