New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
is a natural history and
science museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico that houses permanent
exhibit halls that chronicle a "journey through time", that
spans the birth of the universe to the Ice Age, in eight time
halls that consist of Origins, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Jurassic
Super Giants, New Mexico's Seacoast, Age of Volcanoes, Evolving
Grasslands, Cave Experience and New Mexico's Ice Age. The super
giant hall contains entire skeletons of a stegosaurus,
seismosaurus, saurophaganax and the leg of a brachiosaurus. The
museum's atrium contains a skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex,
named Stan, and it measures forty feet long, twelve feet high
and is believed to have been the second biggest t-rex ever
discovered.
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