Field trip Friday

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Today was field trip FRiday- took my oceanography class to Harvard's Museum of Natural History. This is one of my favorite museums! Its like a miniature Smithsonian!

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These are the glass flowers they have on exhibit which look real. They are absolutely amazing!!! I don't know anything about glass working but to get the right glass so it looks like nature and to get the scale so perfect. Wow.

This is a glass sea anomone. The same fatehr son team that made the flowers made a bunch of these glass sea creatures. I hadn't have seen all of these before today.

And they have all these taxidermied creatures-like this zebra in the Hall of Mammals. They have whale skeletons, complete with the baleen hanging from the ceiling.

And a room of vertebrate fossils and skeletons like a coelocanth and a giant turtle shell. This room is the Romer Hall and Romer wrote my textbook in vertebrate anatomy back in college.

****Thanks to the museum website for these photos. Check it out at http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/index.php.