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Photo Diary: Denver Museum of Nature and Science [1]
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Date: 2023-08-16
This is a VERY nice museum with three floors of exhibits. I spent the whole day in here.
Some photos from my visit:
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit.
The museum
Bronze Mammoth outside
T rex in the lobby
The museum has a lot of docents
Fin Whale skeleton
Rocks and gems
The Alma King, the largest known Rhodochrosite crystal
A piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite
The fossil preparation lab
A large display of taxidermy animals
Coffin lid belonging to a man named Ankh-Et-En-Khonsu. He was a scribe in the temple of Amun.
Ceremonial mask from Papua New Guinea
Fossilized cast of a worm burrow from the Middle Cambrian period, about 525 million years old
Charniodiscus, an enigmatic fossil from the Ediacaran period, around 600 million years ago
Eurypterids from New York, around 425 million years ago
Saurerpeton, an early amphibian
Fossil millipede from the Carboniferous
Allosaurus and Stegosaurus
Edmontosaurus, with a bite taken out of its tail
Stenopterygius, a marine ichthyosaur
Gillicus, a large Cretaceous fish
Periptychus, an early mammal
Proconsul. Once thought to be in the human line, it is now considered to be an ape ancestor
Gomphotherium, an Ice Age elephant
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