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- Brazos Spring Mural
- Carter Creek Nature Trail
- Cotton Farming in the Brazos Valley
- Discovery Room
- Flying Reptiles of the Frithiof Fossil Collection
- Frithiof Fossil Collection
- Ice Age Mammals
- Legacy - The Astin Family
- Native American Stone Tools
- Ranching and Chuck Wagon Display
- The Mary Terrell
- The Republic of Texas
- Past Exhibits
- Astronomy’s New Messengers
- Carnaval
- Educator's Showcase
- Educator's Showcase 2011
- Educator Showcase
- El Camino Real de los Tejas
- Enduring Transformation: The Kazakh People in a Changing World
- Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors
- From Earth to the Universe
- Getting to the Core: The JOIDES Resolution
- Lee and Grant
- Lone Star Lizards
- Neches Journeys: Land River and People
- Rarámuri: Runners of the Sierra Madre
- STAN
- Texas Writers and J. Frank Dobie: Texan Legend
- The Bison: American Icon
- The Brogdon Hotei
- The CADDO: Traditions and Heritage
- The Shogun Age in Japan
- Two Views of Indigenous Bolivia
- VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internment in Texas, 1941-48
- Wild Land: Thomas Cole and the Birth of the American Landscape Painting
- Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
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Brazos Spring Scavenger Hunt
Visit the Museum to try this scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt helps you identify and explore the mural "Brazos Spring". Read the questions carefully, and see how many things from the Pleistocene era you can find. Some will be easy and others more obscure. GOOD LUCK!
| Challenges | Point Value | |
| 1. | Find 10 animals in the mural that are living today. | 1 point each animal |
| 2. | Find 10 mammals | 1 point each mammal |
| 3. | Find 6 types of birds | 1 point each bird |
| 4. | Find 2 reptiles or amphibians | 10 points each |
| 5. | Locate 6 species of insects | 2 points each insect |
| 6. | Find a beetle | 5 points |
| 7. | Identify 3 Texas wildflowers | 3 points each flower |
| 8. | Locate an oxbow | 15 points |
| 9. | Find a fish | 5 points |
| 10. | Locate the humans | 20 points total |
| 11. | Find 6 predators | 5 points total |
| 12. | Find 10 prey | 5 points total |
| 13. | Locate 5 animals that are extinct today | 10 points total |
| 14. | Since it's spring, look for 4 baby animals | 3 points each |
| 15. | Find 3 bird nests | 10 points total |
| 16. | Locate an animal's den | 3 points |
| 17. | Which animal originated in North America, left at the end of the Ice Age, and returned with Spanish explorers? |
10 points |
| 18. | Name 4 animals that are extinct, but have relatives that are alive today |
5 points each |
Scoring
Calculate your total score and rate yourself using the following guidelines:
0 - 49 points GLACIER
50 - 69 points WARMING PERIOD
70 - 119 points SABRE-TOOTH CAT
120 - 170 points ICE AGE HUNTER
