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Amber Secrets: Feathers From The Age Of Dinosaurs
January 24, 2016 · Be The First To Comment

HOUSTON – Imagine the forests of Burma in the Mid-Cretaceous, the last great age of the dinosaurs. Oppressive heat and air thick with carbon dioxide. Ants with giant pincers, the distant roar of a carnivore doing battle with its next victim. Cycads, ferns, conifers and vegetation as far as the eye can see, with flowers […]

Stunning Images From The National History Museum’s 51st Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Arrives At HMNS
January 23, 2016 · Be The First To Comment

HOUSTON-Now in its fifty-first year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the international leader of innovative visual representation in the natural world. This prestigious competition and resulting exhibition, opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Jan. 29, stimulates engagement with the diversity and beauty of the natural world.. On loan from the Natural History […]

Big Nature. Big Screen.
January 22, 2016 · Be The First To Comment

HOUSTON – For a trio of adventurers, the quest to experience America’s wildest, most historic and naturally beautiful places becomes the ultimate off-trail adventure in MacGillivray Freeman’s National Parks Adventure 3D, narrated by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford. This immersive film, opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Giant Screen Theatre Feb. 12, takes […]

Crawl, Climb And Fly With “Amazing Butterflies” At The Houston Museum Of Natural Science At Sugar Land’s Newest Exhibit
January 20, 2016 · Be The First To Comment

Sugar Land, TX- Transform into caterpillars and experience a life-size interactive maze, packed with amazing facts and the fun navigation of blind alleys and through ways in Amazing Butterflies , a special exhibition opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land, Feb. 20 through May 15. Visitors experience the challenges of being […]




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