Gallery Highlights
Exhibit
Please note that this exhibit has closed.
From learning how a food chain works and gazing at marvelous mollusks to exploring the world-class science happening at the Academy, the museum galleries were a place to explore the natural world.
What Eats What
Big fishes eat little fishes, which eat littler fishes, which eat bugs, worms, and microscopic animals, which eat algae and bits of plants, which don’t eat anything at all but instead get their energy from the sun. Energy keeps the ecological community alive, and the flow of energy from one organism to another is called a food chain.
What Eats What showed the consumers and producers that make up the food chain in a stream. It also told a story of environmental research pioneered here at the Academy.
Science at the Academy
Science at the Academy showcased some of the world-class science conducted at the Academy. Videos, photos and specimens from research on birds, fish, fossils, insects, microscopic diatoms, mollusks and plants were on display.
Science at the Academy also features Tiktaalik roseae, the famous fossil that marks the transition between finned-fishes and limbed tetrapods
Marveling at Mollusks
Marveling at Mollusks showcased nearly 100 specimens of clams, scallops, conches, cowries, land snails, chambered nautiluses and many other mollusks from the scientific collections of the Academy’s Malacology Department.
