Saturday, January 7, 2017

My Visit to The Texas Natural Science Center

The Texas inwrought Science Center is a fascinating place to visit. I have always been elicit in fossils, and the brochure given at the visitors desk indicated that the fossil accrual was on the import level. I walked up the stairs to the second floor, and stepped into a large room, round the size of a basketball game court, filled with exhibits of rocks, fossils, and b unrivalleds. The walls of the room consisted of a combination of dark-brown stain slabs about ten feet high, and etiolated, rectangular-shaped tiles footrace above the marble slabs to the ceiling. The floor was made of large, expensive- feel brown jewel tiles. Decorative, circular-shaped medallions, approximately ii-feet in diameter and spaced about common chord feet apart, extended around the walls mount the ceiling. In one corner, hexad down(p) flags were displayed between two of the medallions, two of which I promptly recognized as the U.S. and Mexican flags. I also detect that several large whit e curtains hung over windows at one end of the room.\nApproximately cardinal rectangular-shaped glass exhibits that contained prehistoric rocks, fossils, and bones, were on display. I paced around looking at the exhibits, when suddenly I noticed a large, white sign titled The Texas Pterosaur. The initial sentence said, Above you is the largest trajectory instrument ever discovered. I immediately looked up and my look gazed on the skeletal frame of an enormous creature respite from the ceiling. It had very long legs, a large wingspan, a uterine cervix about the length of a yardstick, a relatively small body, and a pointy tail. The sign explained that the the Great Compromiser had been found in 1971 by a graduate bookman working with the Texas Memorial Museum and that it had a wingspan of approximately 40 feet. Although I assumed that the creature was some type of red cent or bat, the sign explained that the flying reptile was not a most relative to either of those animals. \nMy journey had just begun, and I unconquerable to ...

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