During the 2021 - 2022 school year a number of Amherst College students chose to conduct focused research related to one or more of the specimens on display in the museum. This video looks at the evolution and extinction of three important Marine Reptiles; the Phytosaur * Mosasaur * Ichthyosaur.
Have you ever wondered: at what point in time did organisms evolve from fish to land-dwelling organisms? What was the transition species? Where and how was it discovered? Hi! My name is Tracy Huang takes un on a deeper dive into tetrapods, Tiktaalik, and the evolution from aquatic to land animals.
Have you ever wondered how we know so much about living creatures that lived so long ago. Fiona Anstey Class of 2024 will help us explore how living creatures can become fossilized.
Taku Mahuru class of 2024 presents of the fossilization process of Permineralization, where minerals like silica fill the empty spaces of shells, is the most common form of fossilization
Ben Clark-Eden '25 as he talks you through the Dryosaurus altus and the research done on this specimen by alum Matthew Inabinett '18
Ariana Ravitch presents on Meteorites held in the Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College. Charles Upham Shepard has a very well known collection of over 25,000 minerals. But did you know he also had the fifth largest collection of meteorites for his time?
Join Jesse Pagliuca, Amherst College student, as he interviews Museum Educator Fred Venne about what the Beneski has to offer.
Watch the construction of a new dinosaur specimen in the museum.