SAM NOBLE MUSEUM Of Natural History

HALL OF ANCIENT LIFE The Hall of Ancient Life takes you on a tour of more than 4 billion years of Oklahoma's prehistory - from the formation of the planet through the last Ice Age. The exhibit includes several remains of pre-historic dinosaurs

"The Clash of the Titans" is the centerpiece exhibit to the Hall of Ancient Life, featuring two Jurassic giants locked in a life or death battle.

Highlights this gallery include a lifelike walk-through Pennsylvanian coal swamp forest packed with plants and animals that lived in Oklahoma more than 300 million years ago

Paleozoic Gallery

This exhibit gives you insight as how earth was formed with multiple cutaway models and exhibits that explain plate tectonics and the techniques scientists use to date rocks and fossils.

Touchable Models View the touchable models of stromatolites, dome- shaped rocks that were produced by one of the earliest forms of life on the planet, a type of bacteria that formed colonies. Visitors are invited to touch a large meteorite and a piece of the oldest surface rock found in Oklahoma.

Hall of Natural Wonders In the Hall of wonders you can explore the limestone cave, where you can experience the life of bats, blind crayfish and other animals that make their homes in near to total darkness.

Surround yourself in a diorama of the Ozark highlands oak and hickory branches arch overhead as you are surrounded by the sound of wildlife and rushing water from the highland stream.

Noises of Nature There are many noises of nature including a rattlesnake rattling his tail as warning to you as you approach, and butterflies open and close their wings. A close look reveals bees in the flowers, a black- tailed jackrabbit in the grass, and much more.

The People of Oklahoma The Hall of the People of Oklahoma traces the 30,000-year history of the Native people of the state. Exhibits begin with the earliest archaeological evidence of humans in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma The modern-era exhibits in this gallery focus on the Native American experience in Oklahoma in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, including examples of clothing, toys and other objects that represent ceremonial and everyday traditional activities of the western tribes.

Gallery highlights include the "Cooper Skull," the crushed skull of a now-extinct bison, painted with a red zig-zag pattern. At 10,000 years old, it is the oldest painted object in North America. An audio- visual display takes you to the box canyon in northern Oklahoma where this important artifact was found.

Plan your visit today! Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Tickets are available at the door. For more information call: (405) Come Explore with Us! 2401 Chautauqua Avenue Norman, Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Campus)