Our summer exhibition, BODY WORLDS: Animal Inside Out, is a hit! This extraordinary collection of real plastinated animals is enthralling visitors of all ages. Wrote Nathalie F: "I took my almost 5 years old daughter, and she loved it. She was amazed to see how the animals were 'made inside'!" Michael B. commented: "This is amazing, as a math student I find biology to be a fascinating mix of experimenting with organs and just sheer evolutionary luck. This is truly an amazing exhibit that shows how similar we all really are when it comes to tissue layers... Thank you for this exhibit." 

Learning by doing...that's what it's all about!  Join us for some unique activities to enhance your discovery of animal anatomy. Find out what an owl eats by dissecting its regurgitated pellets—a great activity for the whole family. Check out "Glorious Guts" and compare human and caribou digestive tracts in colourful spandex form! Linger in the very interactive Science Lounge in the Animal Inside Out exhibition where you can play a bone game, take the "mystery mouth challenge" and more. 

An evolutionary celebrity is back in its homeland! Tiktaalik roseae, the famous four-limbed fossil fish uncovered on Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic, is back in Canada after a decade in the United States. Since its discovery in 2004 by American palaeontologists, Tiktaalik has been studied, scientifically described and featured in documentaries and popular literature. Now, Tiktaalik (about 60 pieces) along with 120 other Late Devonian fossil fish are at the Museum's Natural Heritage Campus in Gatineau, Que. They are stored with the rest of the Nunavut fossil collection which the Museum currently curates on behalf of the territorial government.

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