Within the Wellington Green mall in Wellington Florida there is a replica mammoth skull tucked away in a corner of the lower level; the entrance to what looks like a very strange store. Inside is the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. They have a triceratops, a saber-tooth cat, mammoth tusks and a set of teeth from mastodons through elephants for comparison, and in the back a small display on the evolution of the horse.
The tour of this maybe 600 sq. ft. museum includes a 5 minute discussion on how Darwin and his students used horses to understand evolution because they had complete sets of the skeletons to study. Once everyone else left there was an opportunity to talk with the director and it turns out he's looking to move into a larger space and have an entire exhibit, with skeletons!, from hyracotherium to modern equus. They have monthly talks from notable archaeologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists. If you ask and they have it handy they'll pull out their Dakota Raptor bones and show you the ligament connection scars from the feathers!
Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. Admission is $5 and it's worth every penny.
Last edited on Tue Mar 19th, 2019 11:03 pm by Bryy
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