About Sternberg Museum

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The Sternberg Museum of Natural History ranks among the best natural history museums.  No other state university the size of Fort Hays State University has a natural history museum comparable in size and scientific importance to this museum’s holdings.  

The museum’s collections include one of the finest scientific collections of Pternadon material, the largest collection of fossil seeds, and a truly outstanding collection of Cretaceous fossils.  These are complemented by excellent collections of modern biological material, most notably mammals and plants.  

The Sternberg Museum of Natural History, now housed in the former metroplex dome, also features a realistic Cretaceous diorama, along with many exhibits. Among these fascinating exhibits is the museum's most noted specimens of an extremely well preserved Gillicus with a Xyphactinus collected by George F. Sternberg in 1952, known world wide as the fish-with-in-a-fish.   This resulted in phenomenal growth of the museum. 

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