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Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History

See Kansas sea monsters, a fish-within-a-fish fossil and a walk-through Cretaceous diorama at this Hays museum.

3000 Sternberg Dr · Hays, KS

About Sternberg Museum of Natural History

Fort Hays State University's natural history museum holds about 3 million specimens, many of them fossils from the ancient seaway that covered Kansas. The Fossil Gallery shows the state fossils Tylosaurus and Pteranodon plus the famous fish-within-a-fish, and a large diorama puts you on a Late Cretaceous shoreline. Other halls feature live rattlesnakes, Ice Age mammals and meteorites.

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