ALT three views of a section of fossil jaw bone with several cone shaped teeth in place and a numerous empty sockets is shown from three angles

ALT a person on a ladder is using large calipers to measure the hip width of a large mammoth skeleton in a museum gallery

ALT an old blurry and poorly lit vintage shot of two people on a scissor lift carefully attaching a skull to what looks like a large mammoth skeleton in a work room

ALT a somewhat aged photo of a group of 15 people posed in a museum lobby in front of a mammoth skeleton under big windows

ALT a mammoth skeleton is looming over a museum gallery with blue walls and a blue sky themed ceiling decoration cast in diffused sunlight from high windows

ALT a large wedge-shaped fish skeleton is highlighted in light blue in high detail against a black background. It has a flat profile with a heavy jaw and a very short body that angles up to a short tail high in the back

ALT a detailed close-up of a large dead wasp curled up on its side with heavy abdomen with a sharp stinger

ALT two specimens of small, elongated fishes with lobed fins and dark gray-brown mottled coloring on their bodies. There are bright orange and soft blue stripes on their larger fins and small patches of orange along their bellies

ALT a rough wooden statue seems to show a figure kneeling with is hands on his knees and either wearing a large cat-like headdress or representing a cat-like personality

ALT close up of a selection of dolls with elaborate and detailed patchwork clothing and round heads made of some kind of rough fiber material

ALT Three white trays filled with microscope slides. One slide is tilted up, labeled 'NW-1310' with a specimen.

ALT A hand holding a small, weathered stone star-shaped object against a backdrop of fragmented rock textures.

ALT eight pieces of irregular, ancient pottery are lined up in two rows next to glass slides with a thin section of brown substance that might be a sample cut from the potsherds

ALT a large mammoth skeleton with huge, curving tusks looms over head against the blue walls of a museum gallery with dappled sunlight falling against one side of an entrance to a Water Shapes Florida exhibit doorway

ALT A person wearing glasses uses a digital caliper to measure a shell from a tray of numerous shells in a lab.

ALT Two people kneeling by a rectangular archaeological excavation site, using brushes to clear dirt from stones.

ALT Four people work in a storage room filled with shelves of boxes, using laptops and lamps to examine specimens.

ALT An adult and two students examine seashells and small fossils in plastic bins in a classroom with educational posters on the walls.

ALT Herbarium specimen of a long section of vine with rounded leaves and trumpet shaped flowers attached has been pressed and carefully attached to a white sheet with an information label at the bottom and a FLAS Herbarium stamp near the top.

ALT Five people gather around a table covered in various black cut-out silhouettes of insects and plants.

ALT A person in a tropical shirt looks at various insect cutouts suspended on a blue-lit fabric.

ALT People gather around a white sheet illuminated by a light, attracting various moths and insects at night.

ALT A man with glasses and a beard holds a black paper cutout of a moth

ALT Looking up the tall straight trunk of a tree covered in rough gray bark and topped with a feathery canopy of leaves that are out of focus

ALT Three side-view profile photographs of fish arranged vertically against a solid gray background. The top fish has silver and black speckled scales. The middle fish has a golden-brown hue with darker vertical bands and a dark caudal fin. The bottom fish has silver and tan scales with a dark horizontal stripe along its side. A Florida Museum logo is in the bottom right corner.

ALT Two views of a small bivalve shell with a smooth inner cup and a rough, ridged texture on the outside. Writing on the inside lip says UF65969. Scale bar indicates 18.75 MM.

ALT eight pieces of irregular, ancient pottery are lined up in two rows next to glass slides with a thin section of brown substance that might be a sample cut from the potsherds

ALT close up on a bright yellow surface covered in irregular raised circles that could be scales of some kind and in the middle is a very small and nearly transparent animal that looks somewhat like a crab

ALT a small bottle made from milky white glass has a repetitive swirly patter in vibrant blue and light brown on its straight body and short neck