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First Floor | Exhibit
Sant Ocean Hall
Permanent
Did you know?
In 1903, the Museum created the first full-cast of a whale ever displayed.
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A bubblegum coral, the largest-known deep sea coral, named for its bright pink color and gumball-like branch tips.

The jaws of extinct Megalodon where you can take a selfie.

Three skeletons of ancient whale relatives (one of which had legs!)

A preserved 25-foot-long giant squid

A Coelacanth, a fish once thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared.
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Things To Do
- Take a selfie in the massive fossilized jaws of C.megalodon, a gigantic shark that prowled the ocean between 2.6 and 23 million years ago
- Find a carpet anemone, a snapping shrimp, a long-spined sea urchin, or any of the 21 other species in the living Indo-Pacific coral reef
- Watch an innovative video presentation of global ocean data projected on a six-foot-diameter sphere