Originally Posted: Oct. 18, 2018
Nov. 9 – Through 2020. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, will run an exhibit ‘Sea Monsters Unearthed.’ SMU faculty and students have contributed to the exhibit.
Go back in time millions of years to the era of mosasaurs, also known as giant marine lizards (or, yes, sea monsters). The National Museum of Natural History’s new Sant Ocean Hall exhibit, called “Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas,” reveals fossils of colossal Cretaceous marine reptiles on public display for the first time. The waters along Africa’s southwest coast once teemed with the ferocious predators and other sea life, and the museum is showing off animations, murals and full-scale reconstructions of these creatures from the ancient ocean. More info on the exhibit: naturalhistory.si.edu. Free. READ MORE
