Saturday, June 29, 2019

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: Hall of Fossil, part 4


Moving into the next section of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's newly renovated Hall of Fossils moves us back in time to the Paleozoic Era.  A time before dinosaurs ruled the planet.  A time when the forest created the coal the fuels and is destroying our present age.  And from here the exhibit continues to a point where life first emerged in complex forms in the oceans.



 Conifer Forests And Fern Prairies




 Incredibly intricate fossils of coral life.



 Life Before The Herbivores

 Swamps Spread As Ice Sheets Increase 
& Tropics Dry As Ice Sheets Retreat



 Fossil rich veins of coal.

 A touchable model of a giant millipede.
 The skull of a prehistoric freshwater Shark.
 Oceans team with life in the Cambrian Explosion.


 The oldest known forms of complex life.

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