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KU Natural History Museum

Explore our mobile museum exhibits and learn about microbes.

Watch a two minute video tour of our mobile museum exhibits. Scroll down to explore these displays. A magnifying glass highlights a microbial connection you can learn more about by continuing down the page to get moving and model microbes!

Sperm Whale

Physeter macrocephalustooth, cast

Bison

Bison bison, horn with sheath

Coral

Halysites catenularia, Ordovician (488-443 mya)

Fossil Algae

Somphospongia multiformis, Pennsylvanian (323-299 mya)

Mole Salamander

Ambystoma sp.

Pufferfish

Tetraodontidae

Distant relative of herring

Diplomystus, Eocene (56-34 mya)

Stromatolites

Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1 bya)

Eocene (56-34 mya)

Dog lichen

Peltigera praetextata

Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

Petrified wood

Crinoid

Stachyocrinus sp., Permian (299-251 mya)

Fusilinids

Fusulina, Pennsylvanian (323-299 mya)