We tried to visit museums in both San Francisco and Sacramento, but we always found our timing was off. Maybe all California museums are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Joani found a small museum in Chico and since it was Wednesday, we checked it out.
The skeleton below is from a Short Faced Bear that once roamed the North American continent. Ironic that he should be named "short" anything since he was the largest of all bears. Today's polar bears are not quite as massive. Happy enough that I will never meet one of these guys in the woods, but then I have always had nothing but respect for even the smallest bear I have ever met.
The museum was focused on "Fire from the Sky" so there were many displays on asteroids and comets and meteors. Do you know the difference between a meteoroid, a meteor and a meteorite?
Kate and Mike did a little asteroid mining.
The walking sticks were fascinating. The museum started with only one, but in isolation it was able to reproduce on its own. We learned the more mature the insect, the less green it becomes. The largest guy in the terrarium was close to 10 inches long.
Another extinct North American inhabitant I would rather not meet in the woods. The Sabre-Toothed cat. I should have zoomed in on claws - yikes!
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