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The new, 31,000-square-foot fossil hall invites you to explore the epic story of how Earth’s distant past is connected to the present and informs our future. Travel through ancient ecosystems, witness the evolution of life, and get up close to some 700 fossil specimens. Discover how human actions are driving Earth’s rapidly changing climate ...
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The Smithsonian Had To Dig Up Their Dinosaurs Again. The...
- Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
Mummification was practiced throughout most of early...
- Mega-toothed Shark
Come face-to-face with a 52-foot-long model of a female...
- Q?rius Jr.: a Discovery Room
Q?rius (pronounced "curious") is an interactive and...
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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual...
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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no ...
Jun 3, 2019 · The National Museum of Natural History has embraced the science since the ... Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time presents some of Earth's strangest and most unusual ...
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- Watch A Lizard Decay and A Gecko Catch A Fly
- Ch Something 4.4 Billion Years Old
- Charles Darwin's Book Holds A Secret
- A Man in The Bushes Hunts Down A Mastadon
- A Frog and A Salamander Swimming in A Dino Footprint
- It’S Not A Glitch in The Matrix: That Bronze Reptile Is Pixelated
- It’S A Messy World—The Dioramas Have Dung Piles
- And You Can Read About Dino Poop Before You Go
- Is That A Bug Or A Leaf—Or Both?
- This Huge Prehistoric Fish Ate A Slightly Less Huge Fish
The scientific practice of recreating the fossilization process is called taphonomy. In the new Deep Time exhibition, you can watch it unfold before your eyes with time-lapse imaging of a decomposing lizard. Over the course of a little more than a year, you can see the lizard’s body bloat up, get devoured by flies and maggots, and eventually disint...
To tell the story of the history of life, you have to start at the very, very beginning. Before life could inhabit Earth, the planet had to become habitable. On display is a 3.4 billion-year-old metaconglomerate rock with 4.4 billion-year-old zircon bits embedded inside it. Minerals in the zircon show a time when Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and plat...
Adorning several walls of the hall in colorful typeface is the elegant quote: “From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” It is the last sentence from On the Origin of Specieswritten by the famed English naturalist Charles Darwin. The quote is a unifying theme of the hall and cent...
The hall is set up to take you through time. Right around the exhibition’s entrance, you can find displays featuring early humans. By around 13,000 years ago, our ancestors were on every continent, sharing the Ice Age-era Earth with megafauna like the mastodon. A bronze statue of Homo sapiensappears pathetically diminutive against the massive masto...
During the Cretaceous period, flowering plants started to take root and dinosaurs lived in a brilliantly biodiverse ecosystem. Right next to T. rex devouring a Triceratops, there’s an illustration of a dinosaur footprint filled with water. In the tiny pool, swims a frog and a salamander. By collecting microfossils, or super small skeletal remains, ...
A lot of times when researchers find the remains of an ancient organism, they have to work backward to figure out exactly what it was. That process can get really tricky if they only have one or two fossilized body parts to go off of. That’s the case with Steropodon galmani, or what researchers suspect is an early mammal. Because they don’t have al...
A major goal for the team behind the new exhibition was making sure the displays were as realistic as possible. That meant major innovations when it came to how to pose the skeletons and how to provide more context about the environment the animals inhabited. And that meant making things a little messier. Earth wasn’t a completely pristine, lusciou...
Ever wonder what T. rex poop looked like? It might not be the most glamorous feature of the hall, but researchers learn a lot about diet and habitat from fossilized excrement, or coprolites as they’re technically called, like T. rex’s. In this particular coprolite cast, paleontologists found crushed, undigested bone. That tells researchers that T. ...
One of the coolest features that modern insects have evolved is the creative ways that they blend into their surroundings using physical camouflage. If you look closely, you’ll see a prehistoric bug, the Scorpionfly, Juracimbrophlebia ginkofolia, next to an early Ginkgo tree relative, Yimaia capituliformis. Both are estimated to exist between 157 t...
This fossil might have you seeing double: A massive prehistoric fish, Xiphactinus audax, devoured a still impressively large, Thryptodus zitteli. Both then met their fate and became fossilized in incredible detail. These two teleosts, or relatives of bony-tongues fish, lived between 89 and 90 million years ago. Nearby you’ll even see three animals ...
Jun 4, 2019 · After five years, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., is finally reopening its dinosaur hall on June 8. Visitors may come for fan favorites like Tyrannosaurus ...
Apr 1, 2014 · Title: The dinosaur and fossil hall (c urrent working title is “Deep Time”) Opening date: 2019. Where: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Size: Approximately 31,000 square feet of exhibition space. Points of Contact. Siobhan Starrs, project manager, starrss@si.edu.
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Jun 5, 2019 · The Magic Behind What You’ll See at the Smithsonian’s New Fossil Hall. After a five-year, $110-million renovation, the beloved Fossil Hall at the National Museum of Natural History reopens this month, with more scientifically accurate exhibits and a dramatic return for our T. rex. A behind-the-scenes look at the painstaking prep that went ...
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