Natural Science Museum

Outside the museum, I looked at the building with curiosity but distracted daze as a beagle. It appears welcoming as a building that is softly surrounded by trees and bushes. I skip inside and the first thing I see is a ginormous bone!

The bone is a fossil humerus of a bird, I mean, flying pterosaur. It’s called the Quetzalcoatlus, and it lived 65 million years ago. When my mind is in the present, I think about how that bone is looks intimidating since it is something I would normally want. But knowing that it is just a small piece of bone on a much larger flying creature, I feel terrified but glad that the creature no longer exists. For my views on the species homo sapiens, I would think that they are smart and skilled for their ability to find a bone that is so old.

Next I came across the tail armor of a glyptodont. At first impression, this looks like an awesome shelter and home for a beagle. But after careful analysis, I realized that it is a thick plate covering the entire back of the creature, like a turtle shell. I would credit the species homo sapiens once again for being able to find and hold onto a part of an animal that is older than their time. I like the idea of preserving items to remember a certain animal’s existence.

Then my thoughts go a little south when I came across dead birds and models of their homes. Even though I started thinking about how homo sapiens treat dead animals by putting them on display, I was too distracted by what the display was trying to educate me about. Unlike myself, who sleeps on the floor, on the Earth, those birds design their homes on ceilings, hanging down. I was impressed at how the homes were able to support the birds’ weight. There is no way I can build a home that can support mine, that’s for sure.

On the fourth floor, I saw something peculiar. It looked like strange mutated dog food at first, but after reading the signs and labels, I was told that the model is of a virus cell. So these things can be found inside our bodies, huh? Any species can have these? I guess that just shows how homo sapiens is just one out of millions of animal species on this single planet.

In the end, my impression of homo sapiens is that they are a much more sophisticated species than others, since they have created mass exhibits that help them learn more about other animals. Though the measures they take to create such exhibits can be questionable, they are undoubtedly a very curious species.