Nate's preschool had a "field trip" to the Natural Museum last week. We got to see both the dinosaur exhibit and the butterfly exhibit. I hadn't seen the dinosaurs since Michael was in a stroller, and the new display was really fantastic.
This is a slice of petrified wood.
They had the coolest wooly mammoth that was fighting with a human....
Just after this spot, they had several displays of the skeletons they have found that show the evolution of man. There was nearby a display with a modern skeleton and a chimpanzee skeleton. There was a museum employee that was standing near that display talking about the differences between humans and chimpanzees. He then proceeded to explain that we don't know where man came from, but it wasn't from the chimps because the skeletons are too different and man cannot have evolved from chimps.
Next we went to the butterfly area. They have a great display with lots of bugs and live bugs and tons of butterflies that are pinned so you can see them. They also have a large display of chysalis's that are in the process of hatching into butterflies, sometimes you can actually watch it happen.
Once we got in the butterfly garden area, Nate REALLY wanted to have a butterfly land on him. He found one that was perched on something and he coaxed it to climb up on his arm. He really enjoyed that. He never did get one to land on him.
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