Outer Shores Expeditions - A Vessel for Engaging with Nature

First Animals on Land Talk

Thursday, January 23, 2014 | 10:30 a.m.James W. Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Long before fish-like animals began to crawl from the sea onto land, the ancestors of scorpions and snails began colonizing the terrestrial realm. Learn about the behaviours and identities of the first animals.

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Guest Speakers and Special Events

Scientists and artists from different corners of the world bring their perspective on biodiversity to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. A wide range of topics from photography to conservation, gyotaku to ice ages, and stranger-than-fiction organisms have

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Herbarium: Bryophytes

Bryophytes are plants without specialized tissues for moving water or nutrients. They reproduce by spores, have very tiny leaves, or no leaves at all, and do not have flowers. The bryophyte collection houses mosses, liverworts, and hornworts and is a t

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Permanent Exhibits

Fall in love with the diversity of life as you explore over 500 natural history exhibits, showcasing myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around British Columbia and the world. Our specimens are

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Fishes as Art – and what Art!

I recently came across two outstanding examples of the portrayal of fishes as a form of art. The first involves the truly spectacular photographs of Siamese fighting fish by Thai artist Visarute Angkatavanich. One of the most important morphological in

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