"Shark!" Opens at Natural History

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Summary

"Shark!" a permanent exhibition opens in the fossil hall of the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibition features the jaws of Carcharodon megalodon, the colossal ancestor of the modern great white shark.

Subject

  • Shark (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Year 1986 Supplement; Chronology and Appendixes. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 7.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

October 12, 1985

Topic

  • Sharks, Fossil
  • Carcharodon megalodon
  • Sharks
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Fossils

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