Smithsonian Fossil Halls, June 2023

[Splonkadumpocus]

My wife Mariah and I went and visited my parents in Washington DC over Juneteenth weekend, and naturally the Smithsonian fossil halls were required viewing. I had already created a series of slideshows for friends and family to explain everything we saw there, so I just edited them a bit for here.
Intro, Burgess Shale, early Paleozoic
Permian and Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Cenozoic
Ice Age

[Faelrin]

Thanks for sharing all those images. I didn't realize they had so many fossils of my favorite prehistoric animals there (including Ediacaran, Paleozoic, etc). Definitely will need to plan a trip to it maybe next year or so.

[Splonkadumpocus]

Thanks for sharing all those images. I didn't realize they had so many fossils of my favorite prehistoric animals there (including Ediacaran, Paleozoic, etc). Definitely will need to plan a trip to it maybe next year or so.

Fair warning: The Ediacaran and Burgess Shale exhibits are in the ocean hall along with the fossil whales and Dunkleosteus, not in the main fossil hall.

[Faelrin]

Thanks very much for the heads up. I'll have to try to keep that in mind for when I can get the chance to go.

[Halichoeres]

The last time I went to the Smithsonian, a lot of this stuff was closed for the renovation, so I gotta find my way back there. Thanks for the annotated photos!