Paleontologist specializing in birds (especially penguins) and dabbling in choristoderes + sauropods. Curator at the Bruce Museum. All opinions are my own.
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Ants will always be part of the Bruce in more ways as well - later this year we will permanently install the field ant nest from Ant: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives in the Keyes Family Big Backyard Gallery.
Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives has closed but my family is still all in on enjoying ants. My niece found this beautiful chestnut carpenter ant queen on the Bruce Museum Grounds this weekend. Thanks to @alexwild.bsky.social for identifying it for us!
Imagine if you stepped on a carpet and it started wriggling away? Arthropleura was an 8 foot long millipede with a weird flattened shape that roamed Permian swamps over 250 million years ago. Encounter this delightful beast and many more at Six Extinctions, opening at the Bruce Museum in 9 days!
Six Extinctions opens at the Bruce Museum in 5 days. We will display a few of our own extinct birds, which perished in the ongoing extinction event caused by humans. These include our beautiful Passenger Pigeons. The last captive bird, Martham died in the Cincinnati Zoo 1914.
Three more days until Six Extinctions opens at the Bruce Museum! Check out this amazing life reconstruction of Tiktaalik, the Devonian “fishapod” that Sean Murtha created as a special addition to the exhibition.
Only 10 days until T. rex comes to the Bruce Museum! We are the first North American host of Gondwana Studios' traveling exhibition Six Extinctions, opening June 6. The dinos will be joined by giant millipedes, armored fish, saber-toothed tigers and more!
Photo: Richard Harmey
Sunday is the last day of our exhibition Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives. I’ll miss these little guys. One last weekend to see (and smell) the world of natures miniature architects.
Happy to report that our 35x life size Dinoponera ant Buckley has been adopted by the Greenwich Audubon Center! We will miss her, but now that Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives has closed it is great to know she will still be educating people about the miraculous world of natures tiny architects.
