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OPENING MAY 2026: special exhibition, Pokémon Fossil Museum! Sign up for email updates ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/PokemonFossil…

In #UnseenOceans: 🪼 Encounter glow-in-the-dark fish and plankton. 🪼 Pilot through the depths in an interactive submersible game. 🪼 Meet real-life seahorses, eels, and jellies up close. Plan your visit. 🌊 fieldmuseum.io/UnseenOceans

NOW OPEN: our newest special exhibition, #UnseenOceans 🌊

Ready for the DEEPEST dive you've ever taken? Explore the mysterious, rarely-seen world hidden beneath the waves in our new special exhibition, #UnseenOceans, opening on March 15. 🌊 fieldmuseum.io/UnseenOceans 🎨: © @AMNH

Like most bird species in North America, roseate spoonbills don't mate for life, but they do stay with each other for the entire breeding season. 💗

Male roseate spoonbills are known to bob their head and shake nearby twigs to gain a female's attention. 🥰 Once they've successfully matched, males gather those shaken sticks and present them to their date to build a nest together. 🪺

I want someone to look at me like a roseate spoonbill. 🙏 😭

The practice of sending messages through flowers (aka floriography) gained popularity in 19th-century England and the United States. 🔎🌷 Floriography dictionaries were often sought to curate and decipher bouquets — only daffodils would symbolize “uncertainty.” 🙃

This dung was deposited millions of years ago in Wyoming's Green River Formation. Thankfully, smell isn't preserved over time… 🤢

Fossilized feces like these are known as coprolites. 🪨 Paleontologists study these important poops to learn about the diet and habitat of the animal that produced them. 
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