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Browse educational activities, videos, and games to enjoy at home, in the classroom, or to accompany your visit to the museum. Search by category to zero in on your interests.
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Teachers, borrow a box of hands-on lessons and activities in a variety of subjects (at no cost).
The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
Dinos of the Deep | videos
Reptiles emerged from the Paleozoic as humble creatures, but in time, they grew to become some of the largest forms of life ever to stomp, swim, and soar across the […]
When Fish Wore Armor
Dinos of the Deep | videos
420 million years ago, some fish were more medieval. They wore armor, sometimes made of big plates, and sometimes made of interlocking scales. But that armor may actually have served […]
The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
Dinos of the Deep | videos
The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, […]
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
Dinos of the Deep | videos
The marine reptile Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary […]