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Bishop Planetarium & South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL


DinoMike

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The photos are from a trip in 2005, but the exhibits (as far as I know) are still in place at the museum. :)

Bishop Planetarium & South Florida Museum, in Bradenton, FL.

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Smilodon skeleton cast

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Mastodon skeleton

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Mammoth bones found during construction in Bradenton in 2005.

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Mammoth tusk

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Life-sized diorama of 2 ancient Florida hunters & a bison

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Fossil skeleton, can't recall if it was dugong or manatee.

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Megalodon jaw reconstruction

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Life-sized model of a giant armadillo

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Extinct bison skull cap & horn cores

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Mammoth & mastodon jaws

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Short-faced bear

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Jaguar attacking 3-toed horse

That covers the fossil-related stuff. Who knows what they have there now?

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I like that some of the smaller regional museums are getting attention here. :)

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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I'll have to put that on my radar screen so I can stop in next time I'm passing through Bradenton. Thanks.

Cheers.

-Ken

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