Exhibit Guide

       Southeastern Caves:  features a lifelike cave complete with cave formations and animals.

      The Formation of Fossils: introduces fossils and the processes of fossilization.

      Invertebrates: highlights a collection of some of the earliest and simplest life forms, spanning 543 million to 100,000 years ago.

      The Age of Fish: fish, mega sharks and the evolution of tetrapods and amphibians.

      The Age of Reptiles: features recent specimens and fossils including an Ichthyosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, a Komodo dragon and  Archaeopteryx.

      Fossil Plants: studies ancient plant life as well as familiar plant specimens.

      The Hardie Mine Site: travels to Wilkinson County's fossil-bearing site that contains marine species such as whales, sharks, sea turtles and snakes.

      Evolution of the Modern Mammalian Fauna: explores the 30- to 40-million-year-old grasslands of North America and the surprising mammal species evolving on our own continent.

      The Great American Biotic Interchange: discovers the ancient and sometimes bizarre fossils found in Florida.

      Birds: showcases several extinct species of birds and emphasizes the diversity of bird feeding mechanisms.

      The Cave Bear: features a cave bear fossil, one of the largest bear species that once was native to Europe and Asia.

      The Pleistocene of Georgia: "The Ice Age" displays giant bison and Columbian mammoth fossils from Brunswick, Ga., and talks about the North American Ice Age.

      Smilodon gracilis: showcases the skeleton of a saber-toothed cat that stalked the North American landscape 500,000 years ago.

      The Diversity of Modern Primates and the Path to Modern Humans: exhibits recent primate species and provides information about fossil representations of the lineage of humans.

      Planetarium: presents digital simulations of the sky in a 20-foot diameter dome.