Make the Canadian Museum of Nature a part of your Thursday-night plans, with ✨FREE✨ admission from 5 pm - 8 pm brought to you by Canada Life. Book your tickets in advance online ➡️ nature.ca/en/visit-us/pl…

May the 4th be with you! Throwback to this awesome squad who came to Nature Nocturne : Masquerade ready to take down the Empire!

Question: If the Museum had to relocate to a galaxy far far away, what planet would you find it on? 🤔

#MayTheFourth #MayThe4 #StarWarsDay

The world's largest #Triceratops prorus skull could be sitting in our collections! Charles M. #Sternberg , the renowned #dinosaur hunter who had found the specimen in 1929, noted in his #journal at the time that it had the largest crest he had ever seen. #FossilFriday

Did you really think you'd hold onto these? Don't let these glasses eclipse your drawer space any longer!

😎 Donate them for a stellar cause! 🌟 Bring them to the Museum on your next visit. Eclipse glasses will be donated to Astronomers without Borders.

Astro w/o Borders

We have an exciting announcement! 🌎 New in the Earth Gallery: Mont Saint-Hilaire Exhibit. 💎 Featuring 34 specimens from our collection, showcasing the diverse mineral species of this unique locality!

Learn more here 🔗 nature.ca/en/our-science…
#MineralMonday #Mineralogy

Had an absolutely awesome time podcasting with paleontologist Dr. Jordan Mallon from the Canadian Museum of Nature! Such a knowledgeable and engaging individual 🙌. Full episode here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=667ig0…

#JustChillwithOliverGeorge #DrJordanMallon #interview #paleontologist

Journey to the Anderson River in N.W.T. on a search for ancient fish fossils with Museum of Nature paleobiologist Tetsuto Miyashita, Ph.D and his team. Among the discoveries is a large fossil of a primitive member of the lungfish lineage. youtu.be/uOmMPgfowfU?fe… #FossilFriday

New today in nature - a study analyzing DNA sequences of 9,500+ flowering plants, with contributions from Canadian Museum of Nature botanist Dr. Lynn Gillespie. Read more 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Angiosperm tree of life © RBG Kew

Multi-institutional research led by #BrockU 's Francine McCarthy, Professor of Earth Sciences, is now part of the permanent collection at the Canadian Museum of Nature (Museum of Nature).
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🌎 The Museum recently welcomed a sediment core from the lakebed of tiny Crawford Lake to the collections. Within the layers of this core is a recorded history of human interactions and impacts on the planet going back centuries.

#EarthDay #ClimateChange #Anthropocene

Make the Canadian Museum of Nature a part of your Thursday-night plans, with ✨FREE✨ admission from 5 pm - 8 pm brought to you by Canada Life. Book your tickets in advance online ➡️ nature.ca/en/visit-us/pl… #MyOttawa #FreeEventsOttawa #DateNightOttawa #OttawaStudents

Thank you to our Nature volunteers! 💚 It’s National Volunteer Week (April 14 – 20, 2024). This year, 158 volunteers contributed over 9,000 hours of precious time supporting initiatives across the Museum! 💚 We are grateful to have them on our team! #NVW2024 #EveryMomentMatters

🐋 Don’t miss BBC’s #PlanetEarthIII playing at the Museum!

🐠 This Earth Day weekend, we will be streaming Planet Earth III: Ocean in our theatre from April 19th to 22nd!

🎟️ Reserve your tickets in advance here 🔗 nature.ca/en/visit-us/wh…

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Last Thursday marked a significant milestone as we transferred Crawford Lake’s #sediment core to the Museum of Nature National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada. This event united project partners, stakeholders, and Indigenous elders to honor the lake's significance.

#DYK wolves possess a superb sense of smell? In favourable wind conditions, they can smell prey up to 2.4 km away! That's an impressively well-tuned snoot! Visit Wolves! Shape-Shifters in a Changing World to learn more. Included in general admission. nature.ca/en/visit-us/wh…

🐋 Don’t miss BBC’s #PlanetEarthIII playing at the Museum!

🐠 This #EarthDay weekend, we will be streaming Planet Earth III: Ocean in our theatre from April 19th to 22nd!

🎟️ Reserve your tickets in advance here 🔗 nature.ca/en/
📸 ©BBC

Over 2000 of you joined us on Monday, April 8, for a stellar experience watching the eclipse together. Thank you all for eclipsing our expectations and making this event one to remember. Let's keep exploring and discovering together! #SolarEclipseOttawa2024 #SolarEclipse2024

On April 11, join us for an engaging discussion led by Tim Patterson of Carleton University, and Paul Hamilton of the Museum of Nature as they unveil the hidden stories within the tiny yet pivotal Crawford Lake. Register here: nature.ca/en/visit-us/wh…

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