UA Museums’ Thanksgiving 2023 Hours of Operation
Happy Thanksgiving from The University of Alabama Museums!
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Happy Thanksgiving from The University of Alabama Museums!
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Visit the Alabama Museum of Natural History on October 28, 2023 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM for a free National Fossil Day event! The museum will be celebrating the rich fossil record Alabama has to offer with this year’s theme featuring mosasaurs, ancient predators of up to ~50 ft long that lived in the ocean covering most of Alabama during the Cretaceous. “National Fossil Day at the Alabama Museum of Natural History is the largest event in Alabama where people with an interest in […]
Visitors are invited to celebrate the Halloween season at the Gorgas House Museum and the Alabama Museum of Natural History! For those who enjoy ghost stories, from October 23-27 and October 30-31, the Gorgas House Museum will be providing free haunted tours, sharing the spooky stories associated with the home during regular operating hours (9:00 am-12:00 pm, 1:00 pm-4:30 pm). The lighting inside the museum, provided by 2L7’s Lyndell McDonald, will set the mood for this historic house’s eerie tales. While museum visitors […]
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For many decades, avocational (hobby/amateur) paleontologists have made very substantial contributions to this fascinating science in Alabama.
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Most research on predation in the marine fossil record has focused on specimens from North America and Europe.
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Join The University of Alabama Museums for a FREE and all-ages program with Award-Winning Marine Biologist, Dr. David Shiffman!
Happy Labor Day from The University of Alabama Museums!
In the fall, the return of football is highly anticipated. For most Alabama residents, late November showcases the game that they have waited for: the Iron Bowl.
University of Alabama undergraduate student, Maddy Dissinger, is majoring in Biology and she is also enrolled in the Blount Scholars Program.
Ostracods are small crustaceans living in a variety of environments. They were also present in and on the ocean floor in Brazil 66 million years ago.
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