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X-treme Bugs

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  What nightmares are made of: bed bug!
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  This bumblebee is large enough to see the fuzzy hairs on its body
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  There are some 5,000 species of ladybugs in the world.
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  Game: Match the bug with its unique habitat.
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  Honey bees are important plant pollinators and make honey.
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  This live elephant beetle is among the Academy’s xtreme bugs.
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug is commonly found in houses, though not this large!
  Credit: Schmitz/Dinosaurs Unearthed
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  A way-larger-than-life Madagascar hissing cockroach in Xtreme Bugs lets visitors really see what makes the real species so successful in life
  Credit: Schmitz/Dinosaurs Unearthed
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  A giant scorpion in Xtreme Bugs.
  Credit: Schmitz/Dinosaurs Unearthed

Drawn to Dinosaurs

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  Drawn to Dinosaurs, opening Nov. 1, 2015, delves into the science and art of visualizing a living animal based on fragmentary fossils.
  Credit: Lauren Duguid/ANS
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  Drawn to Dinosaurs opens with a paleo artist recreating plant-eater Hadrosaurus foulkii on a giant blackboard.
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  Paleoartist Jason Poole sketches a detail on Haddy in Drawn To Dinosaurs.
  Credit: Lauren Duguid/ANS