The Western Science Center, home of the Pacific Mastodon, is the natural history museum of Southern California's #InlandEmpire!
2345 Searl Pky Hemet, CA
Joined August 2009
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Tiny horse! @bdooley72, educator @WesternCenter, holds a cast upper jaw of the Miocene horse Calippus regulus. Brett found the original specimen in VA in 2001 while volunteering for @VMNH. This cast will be in a new exhibit @WesternCenter opening this August. #FossilFriday
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JOIN US! Inland Empire Science Festival, Saturday, April 29, 2023, 10AM-4PM, Western Science Center. HUSD families enjoy free admission!
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Ouch! Closeup of a healed injury to my lower jaw. They tell me another #mastodon might have tried to stab me in the face with his tusk. #MastodonMonday #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossil @WesternCenter
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I’m on the road again! MY Mobile Museum #M3 from @WesternCenter is at the George School for Fine & Performing Arts in Adelanto CA. Note the @BrianEngh_Art mural. #FossilFriday #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossil
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Beautiful growth lines in the tusk of a female woolly mammoth from Alaska! I know it’s a mammoth because I used the butt side of the @MaxMastodon scale 🙃. #FossilFriday
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Today is our 1st Mobile Museum #M3 visit of 2023, at St. Joseph Academy in Hemet! @WesternCenter #DailyMastodon #paleontology #FossilFriday #scicomm #fossil
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It’s #MuseumSelfieDay! This is actually from a few weeks ago, taking #photogrammetry photos of a #fossil pocket gopher bone @WesternCenter.
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The “Little Lady” a female Pacific #Mastodon cranium from Hemet, California; dorsal, left lateral, & ventral views. She was in her early-to-mid 20s. About 1/3 of the skull is preserved. @WesternCenter collection. #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossil
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This is my right tusk. The bands running transversely across my tusk are growth lines; each band represents a year of growth. On exhibit @WesternCenter. #Mastodon #DailyMastodon #TuskTuesday #paleontology #fossils
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A lower 3rd molar from a Pacific #Mastodon, lateral & occlusal views, from @labreatarpits. This tooth had not erupted when the mastodon died; the cusps aren’t worn, and the roots hadn’t developed. #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossils
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A young Pacific #Mastodon lower jaw from Contra Costa County, CA, @ucmpberkeley collection. #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossils
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For #DailyMastodon, here’s the 3rd premolar from a baby American #Mastodon. From Saltville, VA, part of the @VMNH collection. #paleontology
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Today’s #DailyMastodon is a partial Pacific #Mastodon tusk, found in West Hollywood in 2012. Housed @NHMLA. @bdooley72 from @WesternCenter for scale. #paleontology
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Yesterday a team from @WesternCenter conducted exploratory excavations in #Pleistocene sediments at @JoshuaTreeNPS (under permit). Among the discoveries was this lower jaw, probably from the extinct llama Hemiauchenia. #FossilFriday #paleontology #camels
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Ice Age California was ruled by awe-inspiring beasts, & the grandest of them all was the PACIFIC MASTODON! Learn about them (and ME!) at the @WesternCenter Mobile Museum #M3 today & tomorrow at #LAComiccon, booth 4227. #Mastodon #scicomm #cosplay #Paleontology
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And we’re off! For the next 3 days the @WesternCenter Mobile Museum #M3 will be at #LAComiccon! Stop by to learn about @MaxMastodon & other Pacific #mastodons, & buy great paleo merchandise! Booth 4227. #cosplay #scicomm #paleontology #FossilFriday
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A new #3dmodel on @Sketchfab! A Pacific #mastodon tusk from #DiamondVlleyLake, part of the @WesternCenter collection. #TuskTuesday skfb.ly/ozxQ8
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Our @WesternCenter educators are hard at work at #cascience22 letting teachers know about our education offerings! @cascience @bdooley72
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Now I’m in Palm Springs for #cascience22! Come visit the @WesternCenter exhibit booth to buy plushies, fossil replicas, & teaching kits, & for info on field trips, booking the Mobile Museum, & more! @cascience
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I’m heeeerre…
Good morning #GSA2022! We’re getting set up at our exhibitor booth and - oh, what’s that? A new Ice Age plushie? 🦬 Restocked Max the Mastodons? We’ve got it all (but in limited quantities!). See you tonight when the exhibitor hall opens at 5PM! @geosociety
