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Photo Diary: Academy of Natural Sciences Museum, Philadelphia [1]

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Date: 2024-08-08  

Over the Fourth of July Holiday I visited my sister up in Pennsylvania. I grew up near Allentown before I moved to Florida.

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia has a museum at Drexel University. This was paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope’s home base back during the 19th century Bone Wars, and Drexel is the repository for Cope’s specimens and research. The museum has a dinosaur hall and other natural history displays.

Some photos from a visit.

The museum

Carpet Python

Two-Toed Sloth

There are taxidermy halls for Africa and North America

Polar Bear

Gorilla

A show and tell display. They had a live tarantula, so I was able to talk “spider” with the docent.

The Dinosaur Hall

Elasmosaurus. Cope’s mistake in putting the head on the wrong end sparked the famous “Bone Wars” with OC Marsh.

Triceratops leg bone with teeth marks

T rex

Deinonychus

Chasmosaurus

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