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Today’s Exhibit of the Day? It’s one of the largest amethyst geodes in the world! At about 13 ft (4 m) tall and 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), this giant weighs about as much as three compact cars. It was "born" when molten magma poured from the Earth’s crust some 135 million years ago. While its dazzling purple crystals might catch your eye, this geode would have originally been composed of colorless quartz—its distinctive amethyst color deriving from millenia of natural radiation, heat, and trace contaminants. 

You can spot this geode, and other sparkly specimens, in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals! Plan your visit.

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Favorite color - dark red

Favorite animal - Kittens and bunnies

Favorite fictional character - Haruhi Suzumiya

And favorite song - hare hare yukai

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Favorite animal: Bat, specifically vampire bat

Favorite fictional character: Ruby Rose from RWBY or Riddle Rosehearts from Twisted Wonderland

Favorite song: At this moment, probably Doomer by Tokyo Manaka

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Favourite colour : Black, easily. Blue close second

Favourite animal : Jellyfish!!! Moon jellyfish specifically

Favourite fictional character : HASEGAWA KEN HASEGAWA KEN HASEGAWA KENNNN

Favourite song : FEAST YOUR EYESSSSS by K3itar0

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Favorite color - White!

Favorite animal - Ooh, tough one. I'd say cats, bc of my pet kitties, but I also really love owls. Owls are silly

Favorite Fictional Character - OUNO NANAE THE ULTIMATE CONTORTIONIST MY QUEEN MY PRECIOUS MY–

Favorite song - HOW DARE YOU FORCE ME TO PICK /lh. Hmm.. currently, I'm pretty hung up on I Like You Best by Ella Red 😅

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Favorite Color: Purple

Favorite Animal: I guess...a tiger

Favorite Fictional Character: It's a tie between Harada Keizou the ultimate zoologist and Hirose Shingo the ultimate surgeon

Favorite Song: I have too many favs, so I'll just say the one I just listened to; Looping The Rooms

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Favorite Color: Baby pink, White AND SPECIALLY Black I also really like very dark red

Favorite animal: Dogs (I own 5, I looooove my dogs) AND Birds… perhaps..A mockingjay…???(That was a Hunger games reference btw) (Also shocker my favorite animal isn’t a Fox)

Favorite Fictional character: Okazaki Hanano (obviously), Rue Barnette, Gangle , Ena shinonome AND Tina Isemi

Favorite song: I HAVE LOTS but I had to choose maybe ‘Perfect Suicidal Manual’ By ZIGGRAT, IYAIYAYO by MARETU but the Reomi cover AND Kyoresu’s Xannahmontana cover

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favourite colour: blue. all of the blues. every shade. my room is blue. my clothes are blue. my EYES are blue. my hair will BE blue (soon. hopefully.) BLUE is the air i breathe !!! I LOVE BLUE!!!!

favourite animal: cats... raccoons... and also. olm. i like them. hey fun (?) storytime we learned about them in like. 5thhh gradee i THINK? at biology. they instantly clicked for me i felt attached they have a place in my heart just like ireland does (don;t ask.)

favourite fictional character: hah. varian. from tts/rta. i love this guy like my son. also okazaki! i still like her! waiting for the next con in my country so i can show off my cosplay...ha. and also karin from cooking companions ive yet to catch ul on the lore of the second game oopsies

favourite song: too many.. songs.. but! right now it's ego renegade boy (flavour foley) and cadmium colours (jamie paige) . and ive been listening to rock teto (rOMA) a lot

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Fav Colour: honestly Magenta or Sage Green because mainly well they look nice then jamilton THEN THEY LOOK NICE—

Fav animal: cats.

Fav fictional character: Probably Pure Vanilla Cookie or Kaido. I like PVC's compassion and Kaido's silliness.

Fav song:

Favorite color: green

Favorite animal(s): owls, snakes and cats :33

Favorite fictional character: JUDGEMENT KNIGHTS OF THUNDER!!! (by this I mean Kaidou Shun)

Favorite song(s):

favorite color: yellow!! :]

favorite animal(s): rats, crows, and frogs! :]

favorite fictional character: v!avid maybe? idk it’s hard to choose

favorite songs: that’s difficult but maybe Falling Up by Will Wood? idk i love a lot of songs.

favourite color: i have two: pastel blue and sage green!

favourite animal: i love so many animals but jellyfish have always ruled them all (especially the giant phantom jellyfish!)

favourite fictional character: boy these are hard questions... i'm going to say crosshair from star wars: the bad batch and p!owen from pirates smp!

favourite song: currently weathergirl by flavor foley and punkrocker by teddybears and iggy pop (from the superman movie)

favorite color: red + pink + brown. my heavenly combo

favorite animal: cats and rabbits :3 i’m also inclined to say raccoons as well since all my friends agree that is my representative animal!

favorite fictional character: ponyboy, yang cheng, leon strohl, dan heng, cyrene, maomao, nicole lacsamana. don’t even ask me this man we’re going to be here for an hour if you really want the extensive list……

favorite song songs i have on repeat: “big black hole” by we just met, “masyado pang maaga” by ben&ben, “throwing in the towel” from the outsiders soundtrack, and “nexus” by sawanohiroyuki!

fav color: depends… changes every once in a while, currently purple and probably neon lime

favourite animal: PENGUINS!!! and SEALS!! AND DEERS :D

Fav fictional characters: uhhhh probably Peter Nureyev from tpp (and Juno too..) Arthur Lester from malevolent, chip jrwi, Chloe Price from life is strange, some others that don’t come to mind atm lol

fav songs: Scotty doesn’t know by lustra, pleaser by wallows, be nice to me by the front bottoms, some destroy boys songs.. maybe someday by the strokes, also I’ve been really into cardinal bloom recently and def some others songs..

My favorite color is blue

My favorite animals are pandas, frogs and my dog

My favorite fictional characters at the moment are totoro, Francesca Bridgerton, steven universe, kinger, bluey, Arthur Lester, Chandler Bing

My favorite songs are "mona lisa" By mxmtoon, "love like you" By Rebecca Sugar, "Sunset road" by Reiko Takahashi, "UnderPressure" By Queen and David Bowie

It’s Fossil Friday! With its massive horns and beak-shaped mouth, Triceratops is one of the Museum’s most recognizable dinosaurs. The skull of this 65-million-year-old ceratopsian measures about 8 ft (2.4 m) long—almost a third of its body length. Yet it was much lighter than it looks. In its beak-shaped mouth, Triceratops had between 144 and 160 teeth, which it replaced completely between two and four times over its lifetime. To see this dinosaur, and so much more, plan your visit!

Grab your helmet and gear up for the weekend, because it’s Fossil Friday! Dinosaur lovers might recognize Pachycephalosaurus, an herbivore that lived during the Cretaceous some 66 million years ago. It was once theorized that this critter, like modern bighorn sheep, used its distinctive skull as a battering ram. However, more recent studies have challenged this idea. 

The horns of bighorn sheep create a broad, flat area on the front of the skull which is well-suited for head-to-head combat. But the rounded skull of Pachycephalosaurus would mean that two sparring individuals’ heads would have essentially glanced off each other. The animals might also have been injured if their heads twisted to the side upon impact. If Pachycephalosaurus did fight with its head, it probably knocked its opponents’ sides, like modern day bison. This dinosaur may have also used its unique dome to recognize members of the same species or compete for mates. 

Spot this dinosaur, and so much more, at the Museum! Plan your visit.