Houston Museum of Natural Science

This is a very nice museum. There are chemistry exhibits, geology, and a very large paleontology hall. I spent the whole day here.

Some photos:

Australian Trumpet, the largest living snail with shells up to 30 inches

Gypsum crystals

I am surrounded by CGI raptors

Foucault pendulum

Hall of African taxidermy

Dickensonia, from the Ediacaran period

Gorgonopsid

Deinonychus

Quetzalcoatlus. As tall as a giraffe, it is the largest animal ever to fly

Early frog Eopelobates

During the Eocene, Wyoming was a tropical rainforest. This is a Boaus snake.

Tropical lemur Notharctis, found in Wyoming

Fossil skulls depicting human evolution. In your face, creationists.