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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 18/02/2026

Welcome to the Growing & Forming: Art Workshop for Adults at Pacific Museum of Earth! www.eventbrite.ca/e/growing-forming…

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 17/01/2026

Before the end of January, let’s celebrate garnet, the birthstone of the month! ♥️ The name "garnet" is derived from the Latin word "granatus," which means "grain" or "seed," possibly due to the resemblance of some garnet crystals to pomegranate seeds.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 14/01/2026

I've heard mixed opinions... Some say this agate looks like a papaya? I've heard kiwi? Peach? 🥝🍑🤷‍♀️

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 11/01/2026

This is the #LyttonJellyRoll — the largest turbidite in the world, formed by an underwater avalanche 12,000 years ago... and sitting right in the middle of our Main Gallery! 🌍

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 07/01/2026

Day 7 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 7 obsidian specimens 🖤

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 06/01/2026

Day 6 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 6 amber specimens 🦟

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 05/01/2026

Day 5 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 5 ocean jaspers 🌊

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 04/01/2026

Day 4 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 4 echinoids (sea urchin fossils) 🌊

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 03/01/2026

Day 3 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 3 chalcedony roses 🌹

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 02/01/2026

Day 2 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 2 megalodon teeth 🦈

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 01/01/2026

Day 1 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 1 snowflake obsidian ❄️

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 30/12/2025

And it's (almost) a wrap on 2025! 🦕🌍💎🎊

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 27/12/2025

Some of our favourite PME Tree decorations so far! 🎄🎁

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 24/12/2025

George the Lambeosaurus is passing through your feed to wish you a roar-some holiday season! 🦕🎅🎁🎄

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 11/12/2025

Who doesn't like to pretend they are the weather person on the news? 🤷‍♀️ So silly, and yet, one of our most popular exhibits! 😜

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 09/12/2025

Before vs After Do you think we'll see the globes again? 👀

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 05/12/2025

We are so lucky to store our collection and showcase our exhibits in these GORGEOUS buildings! Wow.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 02/12/2025

Our Dorothy the elasmosaurus was named after Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... cause they both came from Kansas!

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 29/11/2025

Our OmniGlobe is the best way to view Earth, the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, or even the Sun without ever leaving campus. You can choose from a selection of over 300 projections 🤯 Visit it for free at the Gem Gallery inside our Main Gallery! 🌍💎

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 27/11/2025

We have a new exhibit in the making! What could it beeeee 👀🌍

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 25/11/2025

Dorothy the Elasmosaurus breathes air, lives in water, and has 72 neck bones. Well, had. Now, she rocks 😉

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 22/11/2025

Every rock in our museum has a wild backstory. Some were born in volcanoes. Some were buried for billions of years. Some… were decorative paperweights.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 19/11/2025

Our fossilized femur? You can touch it, just don’t try to take it home. It’s 73 million years old, and we’re very attached.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 17/11/2025

Some fossils are casts, some are molds, some are poop. Yes, there’s a scientific word for fossilized poop. It’s coprolite. (We know. We giggle too.)

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 15/11/2025

Our oceanography exhibit explains anglerfish romance: the male literally fuses into the female’s body. It’s… commitment.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 13/11/2025

Your phone is basically a portable mine — gold, copper, lithium, indium… all in your pocket. And yes, that’s why we have a whole case on e-waste.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 11/11/2025

The Acasta Gneiss specimen in our museum is 4.03 billion years old. One of the oldest rocks on Earth... Basically the museum’s quiet grandma (and older than any questionable sauces in your fridge).

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 09/11/2025

Did you know? Our Mineral Rainbow exhibit is prettier than any Instagram filter (no other opinions allowed) and comes with a crash course in physics, colonialism, and even how shrimp see light 🌈🔬

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 08/11/2025

Our dinosaurs are frozen mid-drama: Daspletosaurus chasing a Dromaeosaurus over a Chasmosaurus snack. Basically, prehistoric dinner theatrics.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 06/11/2025

Not edible. The Lytton Jelly Roll is the world’s largest sedimentary swirl — a 2-meter rock that rolled underwater 12,000 years ago and made geology look delicious.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 04/11/2025

PME fun fact! The climate hallway is themed around a murder mystery, where different clues and scenarios will help visitors “solve” the mystery of climate change.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 26/10/2025

Did you know that this photo of George is the Wikipedia photo for his species - Lambeosaurus? How fancy. He's like the Lambeosaurus celebrity of the dino world. He was also the 1st to be found, the type specimen for his species, AND he has been featured on TV shows and stuff! GO GEORGE!!! 📣

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 24/10/2025

Did you know that Dorothy, our elasmosaurus, is named after Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz? That's because they both come from Kansas 🇺🇸

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 22/10/2025

Did you know that the Lytton Jelly Roll is the world's largest turbidite? A turbidite is a sedimentary structure caused by an underwater avalanche. Usually, they are just a couple of centimeters in length!

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 21/10/2025

Did you know that the autumn colors (pigments) were there all year long? But they were masked by the green of the chlorophyll! The deciduous trees break down the chlorophyll, absorb the nutrients it contained back into the wood for winter storage, and the other colors have a final chance to shine🍁

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 19/10/2025

Did you know that some rocks are made from animals and plants? They are called organic sedimentary rocks and form out of organic (carbon-containing) molecules from once-living organisms.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 17/10/2025

Fun fact: The Bolivian Salt Flats, or Salar de Uyuni, are characterized by two main shapes: the polygonal, honeycomb-like patterns visible in dry conditions, and a vast, flat, reflective surface during the wet season.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 06/10/2025

And that's show business for you, baby ❤️‍🔥 - George the lambeosaurus 🦕 #universityofbritishcolumbia #ubcstudent #pacificmuseumofearth

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 30/09/2025

Together, Canadians must do more than just talk about reconciliation; we must learn how to practise reconciliation in our everyday lives—within ourselves and our families, and in our communities, governments, places of worship, schools, and workplaces. -Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 28/09/2025

Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because the “P” is silent. 📸 Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs, but giant flying reptiles with bat-like skin wings, hollow bones, and sharp beaks. They lived alongside dinosaurs, but are not related, and primarily glided on air currents.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 26/09/2025

#WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay is observed annually on September 26th to raise awareness about critical environmental health issues. Environmental health is one of the largest fields within public health because of the myriad ways external forces can impact how people eat, live, and grow.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 24/09/2025

Why was the sedimentary rock so cheap? Because it was always on shale. 📸 Shale, a fine-grained, sedimentary rock that forms from compressed mud, clay, and silt, often containing organic matter.

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 22/09/2025

This year, the autumnal equinox falls on Sept. 22 at about 11:19 AM PDT 🍁 It is the moment when day and night are approximately equal in length across the globe. The word "equinox" comes from Latin, meaning "equal night".

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 21/09/2025

Geology rocks… and geography is where it’s at. (Ha ha. Get it. GET IT?)

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 19/09/2025

Why don’t climatologists trust the atmosphere? Because it’s always up in the air 😁 📍 Pacific Museum of Earth, UBC, Vancouver

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 17/09/2025

Which dinosaur knows the most words?

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 16/09/2025

Today is #WorldOzoneDay and we celebrate one of the most effective international agreements ever to be made. "This achievement reminds us that when nations heed the warnings of science, progress is possible." António Guterres

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Pacific Museum of Earth @pme.ubc.ca · 14/09/2025

With us geologists, it’s ore or nothing. 📸 Manganese ore

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