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PALEO POP-UP MOBILE MUSEUM KU NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Explore our mobile museum exhibits and learn about fossils!

Watch a two minute video tour of our mobile museum exhibits. Scroll down to explore these displays. A magnifying glass highlights fossil specimens and casts of fossils.

The fossils in this exhibit span many hundreds of millions of years. Scroll down to travel back through time.

Stromatolite

Mineral and sediment layers trapped by photosynthetic bacterial colonies

Distant relative of herring

Ammonite

Straight-shelled ammonite

Bivalve (clam)

Dinosaur

Toe claw cast

Dinosaur

Finger with claw cast

Extinct fish group with long snouts

Cast

Leaf

Dinosaur

Skull cast

Fossil wood with fungal infection

Recent wood with fungal infection

Crinoid

Early relative of mammals

Skull cast

Early tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate)

Skull cast

Algal mat

Fusulinids

Leaves of early fern

Trilobite

Coral

Stromatolite

Mineral and sediment layers trapped by photosynthetic bacterial colonies