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  2. Houston Museum of Natural Science - Wikipedia

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    The museum was officially renamed the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 1960. Construction of the current facility in Hermann Park began in 1964 and was completed in 1969. [4] By the 1980s, the museum's permanent displays included a dinosaur exhibit, a space museum, and exhibits on geology, biology, petroleum science, technology, and geography.

  3. List of dinosaur species on display - Wikipedia

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    Triceratops: HMNS 2006.1743.00 Lane Houston Museum of Natural Science: Houston: Texas: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops: MOR 3027 Yoshi's Trike Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman: Montana: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops horridus: AMNH 5116 American Museum of Natural History: New York: New York: USA. Skeleton, mounted (copy) Triceratops ...

  4. Category:Museums in Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Health Museum; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Houston Fire Museum; Houston Fire Station No. 7; Houston Museum District; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Sam Houston Park

  5. List of dinosaur specimens with nicknames - Wikipedia

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    Houston Museum of Natural Science: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) Lane the Triceratops: Larry BDM Badlands Dinosaur Museum: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) Hell Creek Formation, ND Has a pathological tail Laurel's Trike ROM 2938 Royal Ontario Museum Triceratops

  6. Big John (dinosaur) - Wikipedia

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    On 21 October 2021, the skeleton was sold for €6.6 million (US$7.7 million) by the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris, [6] [21] exceeding the expected sale price of US$1.4–1.7 million. [6] It was purchased by a US collector, anonymous at the time but later revealed to be Tampa -based businessman Siddhartha Pagidipati, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] who ...

  7. Ceratopsia - Wikipedia

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    Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ p s i ə / or / ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t oʊ p i ə /; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

  8. List of museums in Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The city's first museum was the Walcutt Museum, opened July 1851. At its opening, the museum had about six wax figures and a few paintings. It grew to have about 20 wax figures, several hundred animal specimens, and about 100 quality oil paintings. [1]

  9. Culture of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.