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Harvard Museum of Natural History
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6/22/2012 2:05:06 PM


The mineral kyanite from Brazil
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The Allende meteorite
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The Allende meteorite, which fell near Allende, Mexico on February 8, 1969, is the oldest rock ever dated at 4.567 billion years old and is believed to represent the date of the formation of the solar system. The meteorite represents a class of meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites which are relatively rich in elements like carbon that would burn away under the extreme conditions of solar system formation. Therefore, scientists believe the meteorite formed just prior to the formation of our solar system. 6/22/2012 1:17:37 PM


Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Superb presentation of the Hominin family tree (i.e., our direct or indirect ancestors). The skulls are replicas of the major paleoanthropological discoveries made over the decades. 6/22/2012 1:39:11 PM


Trilobites from the Silurian of the Czech Republic
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Trilobites from the Silurian of the Czech Republic. Trilobites went extinct at the end of the Permian. 6/22/2012 1:42:54 PM

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is obviously on Harvard Universities’ campus. It has several exhibits including: Fishes gallery, Mollusks: shelled masters of the marine realm, New England Forests in the Zofnass Family Gallery, Evolution, Language of Color, The Botanical Collection featuring the Glass Flowers, The Zoological Galleries which feature Arthropods: creatures that rule and the Great Mammal Hall, and the Mineralogical Galleries.


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Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It displays a sampling of specimens drawn from the collections of the University's three natural history research museums:

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