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January 18, 2022

What is it? – Identification of Natural History Objects

Many interesting natural objects can be found while out hiking, walking along a streambed, or digging on your property.

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Understanding the Climate Crisis – Part I

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Understanding the Climate Crisis – Part II

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Bones of a cool Ice Age animal! Answer to FoW #35.

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November 21, 2014

It’s a Mastodon Vertebra! Answer to FoW #28

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October 7, 2014

It’s a femoral head…of a mastodon! Answer to FoW #24

September 25, 2014

The Anxious Arthropods

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Playing Musical Mastodons!

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That’s one HUGE rodent!

We had two international researchers make a special trip to Columbus this week just to examine specimens in the natural history collections! OK, they're from Canada, but that's still international right!? Anyway, we were pleased to welcome Tessa Plint and Dr. Fred Longstaffe of the Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science at the University of Western […]

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October 16, 2013

Today is National Fossil Day!