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Find modern traces in your backyard, and then check out Backyard Adventures, the exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Modern Traces

June 12, 2017 Gelsey Torres Education, Environmental Science, Evolution, Featured, Fossil, Interactive, Paleontology

Hunt for traces in your backyard, urban neighborhood, or local park.

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The oldest natural history museum in North America. Open Fri-Su. 🎟 Timed tickets available at ansp.org

Academy of Natural Sciences
⭐ Announcing Vacation Science Days ⭐⁠ Monday ⭐ Announcing Vacation Science Days ⭐⁠
Monday through Friday, March 29–April 9, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.⁠
$85 child/$75 member child per day⁠
❗Space is EXTREMELY limited ❗⁠
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Spend your spring break at the Academy with our fun educators, cool exhibits and wild science! Sign up for one date, or sign up for them all; each day will feature NEW hands-on activities, creative crafts and untold secrets of the museum. Learn about the naturally awesome science at the Academy, from fossils and dinosaurs to bugs, birds and botanicals! ⁠
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For more information on how we are keeping campers safe and healthy and to register, visit the link in bio.
Have you ever met a Dinogorgon? Not to be confused Have you ever met a Dinogorgon? Not to be confused with the Demogorgon from Stranger Things, this permian creature roamed the earth 290 million years ago! ⁠
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Plan your visit this weekend 🔗 in bio for timed tickets 🎟️⁠
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📷 by recent visitor @amarecj - thanks for visiting!
Academy Conversation: Is the Climate of Climate Ch Academy Conversation: Is the Climate of Climate Change Changing? Join us virtually to talk about what actions are being implemented to help tackle #ClimateChange, from City Hall in Philadelphia all the way to the White House. Free with registration. ⁠
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📅TODAY 3/2/21 at 3:30 p.m.⁠
Link in bio to register
Happy #MolluskMonday! Here is a fine Horned Helmet Happy #MolluskMonday! Here is a fine Horned Helmet Shell (Cassis cornuta) in the Academy’s malacology collection.
Rainy day blues? We have sold out of tickets for t Rainy day blues? We have sold out of tickets for today, but you can come hang out under these blue skies with our Bison on Sunday. You save $2 when you reserve your timed tickets online! Plan your visit today via link in bio. 

Photo by recent visitor @cgladston3
Want to see our Permian Monsters exhibit, full of Want to see our Permian Monsters exhibit, full of moving prehistoric creatures from the comfort of your couch? You can - tonight! ⁠
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Link in bio to register for our Flashlight Tour at 7 p.m.
Raise your hand if you've ever dreamed of digging Raise your hand if you've ever dreamed of digging for dinosaur bones! 🦖⛏️🙋🏽 ⁠
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For Ruby Le, a high school student in our Women In Natural Sciences program, this dream became a reality in the summer of 2019 during a weeklong fossil dig in Montana. Ruby got to jacket fossils, stargaze, hike and learn about geography! ⁠
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Women In Natural Sciences (WINS) is a free afterschool and summer science enrichment program offered to female public school students. Since its founding in 1982, WINS has been providing participants with hands-on science classes, skill-building activities and opportunities for personal growth in a uniquely nurturing setting. To date, more than 820 young women have completed the WINS program. The program’s mentoring and support have resulted in 100 percent of students graduating high school and more than 96 percent attending college.⁠
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Join us virtually on March 11 to celebrate the meaningful experiences of WINS alumnae at Life After WINS. Link in bio to register.
The Academy's animal ambassadors help connect our The Academy's animal ambassadors help connect our community to nature! Gecky the leopard gecko has become a favorite of local students during virtual lessons about animal habitats. Leopard geckos are native to dry desert areas in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and northwest India. Leopard geckos are well equipped to survive in this extreme habitat with features like camouflage, a tail that stores fat for nutrition and shedding edible skin that provides extra minerals and moisture.⁠
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To book a virtual lesson for your class visit the link in profile!
Break out your pearls for #MolluskMonday! A pair o Break out your pearls for #MolluskMonday! A pair of cultured “Mabe” pearls still in their parent oyster. These are made by sliding a hemispherical blank between the living animal and its shell. The oyster deals with the irritation of the rough blank by coating it with mother-of-pearl to make it smooth. The resulting half-round pearls are bigger than any possible spherical pearl, and are used for earrings and brooches.
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