The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery

A toothy Freshwater Vampire Fish skull … a Burmese python … the 215-million-year-old jaw of an ancient crocodile-like reptile… Come face-to-face with these amazing specimens and more in a one-of-a-kind, limited-time exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

The Academy’s collections contain more than 18 million items, and we’ve jam-packed the highlights into an 80-foot-long wall that showcases these beautiful, weird, scary, and rarely seen marvels. You can get just feet away… Show more from an enormous mount of an Irish elk, gaze at boxes of insects of all colors of the rainbow, and try to guess whether our huge Andean condor is bigger than your little brother or sister. Want to get even closer to our specimens? Reach out and touch a 400-pound space rock, a coral that looks like a brain, and a giant clam shell!

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