{"id":102,"date":"2014-07-17T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:19:23","slug":"fossil-collection-excites-youngsters-ages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/?page_id=102","title":{"rendered":"The Fossil Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-344 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/trex-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular exhibits in the museum is the Fossil Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Dominated by a life-sized casting of a T-rex head, the fossil corner also displays a mastodon thigh bone, tusk and tooth, a skeleton of a hoplophoneus (one of the first sabertooth cat), and a smilodon (the last sabertooth cat). These replicas were cast from actual specimens from other museum collections.<\/p>\n<p>The newest addition to the collection is the actual leg bone of a wooly mammoth. The specimen stands 6 feet, 7 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a dinosaur egg nest display that allows visitors to touch a real fossilized egg nest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-345 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dino-egg-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular exhibits in the museum is the Fossil Corner. Dominated by a life-sized casting of a T-rex head, the fossil corner also displays a mastodon thigh bone, tusk and tooth, a skeleton of a hoplophoneus (one &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/?page_id=102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}