As humans, we are drawn to the extreme – the grotesque, exciting, adorable, implausible and incredible. Organisms on this earth are equipped with extreme adaptations, capable of achieving amazing feats, while inhabiting and surviving in the seemingly impossible. Today, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum launches its newest programming theme – Extreme Adaptations.
The diversity of life encompass the unfathomably small and incredibly giant, along with everything in between. Size isn’t the only extreme: every organism on our planet is adapted to survive and exploit the world around it. There are extreme and fascinating examples from every branch on the tree of life. What are these extreme adaptations? How do they arise? How do we study them in extreme parts of the earth? At the museum, we will help satiate your extreme curiosity about the world around you.
New programming features:
- Museum Tours: Let us guide you through extreme organisms throughout our collections
- Discovery Lab: Learn about two extreme biodiversity researchers from UBC. How do they adapt to extreme environments to study extreme animals? Become a scientist and try out their research techniques.
- Crafts: create useful tools for your scientist kit
- Extreme Eyes Activity (12:30 p.m. weekdays, 12:45 p.m. weekends): get up close to the eyeball, an extremely fascinating adaptation. This activity involves a dissection demonstration.
- Extreme Trivia: blow your mind with extremely cool facts about interesting organisms
- Puppet show: discover extreme adaptations in the animal kingdom, including the blue whale
- New scavenger hunts
- And more!
Visit our museum and immerse yourself in the world of extreme adaptations! For more information, visit our Events page.