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FROGS & FAIRYTALES MAR 30
SHARK ZONE MAY 11
Welcome to the Virginia Living Museum
Virginia’s Animal Attraction & Dino Destination
View endangered red wolves. Get up close to a moray eel and moon jellies. See fish with no eyes and frogs that change colors. Touch live horseshoe crabs. Relive the age of the dinosaurs. It’s all at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, where living exhibits depict Virginia’s natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. Visitors experience animals native to Virginia in habitats, discovery centers and interactive exhibits. The Virginia Living Museum showcases Virginia’s natural and living resources to encourage understanding and protection of our natural world. Explore the new outdoor Dinosaur Discovery Trail with 16 life-like dinosaurs, paleo camp, dig pits & dinosaur fossils. Join us for American Adventure now open through April 21, 2019. SHARKZONE will open May 11 and run through September 2, 2019. It will be a Shark Summer!
What You’ll See
Animals in Action
The Virginia Living Museum is home to more than 250 species of animals found in Virginia including reptiles, mammals, birds and fish. We provide a sanctuary for orphaned, non-releasable or injured animals.
Happening Today
Fish Feeding – 11:00 am - 11:15 am
A Giant Leap: Exploration Beyond the Moon – 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Vulture Enrichment – 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Aviary Feeding – 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Skies of Jamestown – 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Chesapeake Bay Tank Feeding – 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Happening Now on Social Media
New jobs posted on LinkedIn so please check us out over there, but please use the application online. We would love to have you!
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March 11, 2019: The Virginia Living Museum posted an article on LinkedInA Horseshoe SPIDER? Wait, what? Let's read this and learn more.
Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
phys.org
Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always seemed a bit out of place.
Breaking News: Study confirms baby horseshoe crabs are really ridiculously adorable!! ^Fixed the headline for ya. ;)
I'm not surprised. I don't like finding spiders underfoot. Same goes for horseshoe crabs.
Marguerite Torres
I didn't know it was at issue! My Mumma taught me that when I was a wee speck of a boy.
I learned this *at the VLM* decades ago.
Love holding them and watching them crawl under water :D
Sara Stockfleth Madeline Wise
Joseph Gill Sydney O'Brien
James Bradley Check it out, Tuffy. -Cucumber
Dawn Michelle Brault it’s soooo little
Aren’t crabs related to spiders and scorpions?
So cool