The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

 

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the sponsor of the falcon cam, has Dr. Brian Redmond as the curator and head of science. The Museum has on display a partial skeleton of a homid that is 3.8 million years old, and a sloth bear from India that measures 18 feet and is more than 200 pounds!
Buckeye Photo by Scott Wright

They also have on another display that is a 360 million year old fish that measures to 16 feet long (bigger then most sharks). The most interesting part is they have a moon rock from the Apollo 12 mission that is 253 grams.
There is also a special part of the museum that is just for kids! It was incorporated on December 1920. In 1922 the first exhibit of animal parts was opened.
To learn more about The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, visit their website at www.cmnh.org .

 

Bibliography

Cleveland Museum of Natural History; 2005; www.cmnh.org ; full site

 

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