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Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World

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  Students from Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia learn to speak “croc” in Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World, on view through May 6, 2018
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  Russell Byers Charter School students get a close-up look at a big one in Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World.
  Credit: Mike Servedio/ANS
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  The American alligator is one of nearly a dozen live reptiles on display in Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World, Feb. 3–May 6, 2018.
  Credit: Joe McDonald
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  Siamese crocodiles are among the most endangered crocodilian species. Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World presents a special opportunity to see a live one.
  Credit: Joe McDonald
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  A life-size model of Gomek, a saltwater crocodile that has become a symbol for crocodile conservation.
  Credit: Peeling Productions
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  A live dwarf croc in the exhibit. These shy forest dwellers spend much of the day in earthen burrows and their status in the wild is largely unknown.
  Credit: Peeling Productions

X-treme Bugs

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  Cicadas like you’ve never seen or heard them in Xtreme Bugs.
  Credit: Schmitz/Dinosaurs Unearthed
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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.
  Credit: Lauren Duguid/ANS
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  Paleoartist Jason Poole sketches a detail on Haddy in Drawn To Dinosaurs.
  Credit: Lauren Duguid/ANS