Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Animals of All Time are Coming to the Natural History Museum of Utah
SALT LAKE CITY—Feb. 2, 2015—The biggest, smallest and most amazing mammals of all time are coming to the Natural History Museum of Utah. Utah animal lovers can see them up close at the Extreme Mammals Exhibit, which opens to the public on Feb. 7 and will run until July 26.
The exhibit, created by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, showcases a vast array of mammals, from the largest one ever to walk the earth — 15-foot tall rhino relative Indricotherium “Peggy” — to the smallest, Batodonaides, a shrew that measures one and a half inches long.
“The Extreme Mammals exhibit is an incredible display of fossils, skeletons, taxidermy and reconstructions of mammals that will surprise and delight people of all ages,” said Sarah George, executive director of the Museum. “Who could ever imagine a whale with legs or a bee-sized bat? This exhibit truly does have it all, and we are thrilled Extreme Mammals will be calling our museum home for the next several months.”
In an effort to explain the 200-million-year history of mammals, the exhibit is divided into nine sections—Introduction, What is a Mammal?, What is Extreme?, Head to Tail, Reproduction, Mammals in Motion, Extreme Climates, Extreme Isolation, and Extreme Extinction—and features dynamic media displays, animated computer interactive displays, hands-on activities, touchable fossils, casts and taxidermy specimens.
Utah is home to 15 species of extreme mammals. Each of these mammals, which are already part of the Museum’s permanent space, will be featured in the new exhibit and will be tagged as “I’m Local.”
