When you think about Thanksgiving, science is probably not the first thing that comes into your mind. It seems much more aligned with history, and of course, the culinary arts. However, beneath the eating and thanking, there’s a lot to be learned!
Read MoreAfter months of research, organization, and work, the newest Bruce Museum exhibit is coming together. Secrets of Fossil Lake opens on Saturday and stars fossils from the Green River Formation of ancient Wyoming and Utah. Fossil Lake is an amazing site. The area is now a desert, but 52 million years ago, Fossil Lake was lush and thriving.
Read MoreIf you had to guess, would you say that this is a real fossil, or a reproduction? This is one of the specimens soon to be on display at the Bruce Museum for the upcoming Secrets of Fossil Lake exhibition. As you might have guessed, it is a snake skeleton. As you may not have guessed, it is a reproduction.
Read MoreGreenwich Town Hall has been invaded by dinosaurs for the month of November! To add some Mesozoic mania to the area, yesterday we set up a dinosaur-themed display case in Town Hall.
Read MoreIn honor of Halloween approaching, it’s time to look into how the Bruce Museum acquires, processes, and prepares some of the spookiest items in the collections: Skeletons.
Read MoreHow do you get a museum science department really excited? Showing us pictures of turtles is one way, but an even better method is shipping us boxes of amazing fossils. The shipment we opened yesterday were sent to us by the Field Museum of Natural History. They are specimens on loan for our upcoming exhibit: Secrets of Fossil Lake (opening November 21).
Read MoreOne of the highlights of my time thus far at the Bruce Museum has been caring for a specimen collected by our first curator, Paul Griswold Howes. The specimen is a mud wasp (Trigonopsis howesii) nest from Guyana.
Read MoreStories about animals and artifacts by scientists at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT
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