Posts Tagged: Paleontology
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: The Countdown Begins!
It's beginning to look a lot like...UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day! The 12th annual event, set...
A scene from one of the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Days at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. The 12th annual is Feb. 18. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A nematode display at a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Nematodes are also called "round worms." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The paleontology collection is the work of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The marine collection at a recent UC Davis Biodiversity Day included this sunfish. A nearby sign read: "The ocean sunfish's food of choice is jellyfish. Their digestive tract has a thick slimy lining that is believed to prevent it from being stung by its prey's tentacles." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology always draws a large crowd at the annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mark Your Calendar: Fifth Annual Biodiversity Museum Day Set Saturday, Feb. 13
DAVIS--The University of California, Davis will celebrate its fifth annual Biodiversity Museum Day...
Bohart Museum associate and entomologist Jeff Smith (in back, at left) talks about the Lepitoptera section that he curates. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Robbin Thorp (center), distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, with visitors at a Biodiversity Museum Day at the Bohart Museum. At right (foreground) is UC Davis entomology undergraduate student and Bohart volunteer Wade Spencer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven will be a part of the Biodiversity Museum Day this year. The bee sculpture is the work of Davis artist Donna Billick, who co-founded and co-directed the UC Davis Art/ Science Fusion Program with professor/entomologist Diane Ullman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Feb. 8 Is UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: Six Open Houses
DAVIS--It's like Super Science Day! Six rolled into one. UC Davis's fourth annual Biodiversity...
Madagascar hissing cockroach crawls on arm of youngster at Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors enjoying the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory.
Olivia Dally, a UC Davis grad who received her degree in wildlife fish and conservation biology in 2012, preparing specimens at the third annual Biodiversity Day.
This is the skull of an Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, displayed last year by the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology in the Academic Surge building.
Visitors to the Botanical Conservatory delighted in the dispersal method of the popping "firecracker fruit" seeds.