Natural History 1/3

Nature-al History! For some reason my friend really wanted to see some dinosaurs. There was not much time left before the museums were going to close, but we still had like an hour and a half so that sounds like enough time, right?

This is outside the museum. My friend's favorite dinosaur, the Triceratops. So now we can go, right? What? You want to see the whole thing? Sure I bet there's a lot of neat stuff in there!

Click on the "Read more" below to see more neat stuff and maybe some dinosaurs?

Also outside the museum was a petrified tree. The sign said 200 million years old! Is there something back from those time thinking "Hey, I'm glad they still have trees in the future!"

Banded Iron Ore outside. The sign said, awkwardly, "2250 million" years old. Why would there be such a odd numbering system? Can't they just say "2 1/4 Billion" years?

Here's the line to get in. Only took about a half hour. Which doesn't sound like long but try standing in a line for a half hour and it sure feels like eternity.

Here's the big 'ole Elephant in the lobby that greets you! We had about an hour, so we ran around like crazy trying to get some pictures!

There's the big whale on the ceiling. My friend thought he remembered it being bigger.

Underwater creature, or space alien? Would it make any difference?

Deep under water there's some pretty strange stuff! This thing was kinda cute.

The way this sign reads, it seems like the Rest Rooms are part of the exhibit?

This is the "Predator" wing of the museum. You've all seen the movie "Predator," right?

 This is a nice work of art. You can imagine it either way. That the bird got away or the cat got a dinner.

 This one most certainly did NOT get away. A little harsh for the kiddies? Hey, that's nature!

 Who up there is this giraffe teasing, sticking it's tongue out like that?

It's hard to see from this picture, but that walrus was HUGE! What an unexpectedly massive creature! Oh, I'm sorry I need to say that walrus was "YOOOOGE!" 

Haha. This pig skeleton is going against the stereotype of what it means to be a "pig?"

Happy ancient fish is pointing us towards the dinosaurs! Why is there an weird circle bone around the eye?

Yay! There it is! A REAL dinosaur!

Aww! A baby triceratops! Except when you think about it, it's sad that it never got to grow up. Don't you just want to give it a hug?

 He's yawning, right? Sleepy T-Rex wants a nap? No? Lunch? Run!

Is this the definition of "irony?" An old "dinosaur" of an arcade game teaching kids how to become a fossil? Like, it, itself, is now a fossil of sorts?

What a thing to imagine if the big asteroid did not hit Earth. Do you think "people" would have come to be? Would it have been another billion years of dinosaurs? Maybe people AND dinosaurs?

Do they think we want to see empty cases in a museum? I'm sure they could find something else to put in there.

Did environmentalists put this here? Al Gore, perhaps? Wow let's not make everypony feel super guilty. Surprise! The new "big asteroid" is... MANKIND!

Blam! Right next to the guilt poster, a recent victim of extinction, the Dodo Bird. All skeleton'd up like it's right at home next to the other extinct animals.