The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, located in Bradenton, Florida, is a natural history museum specializing in the history of Florida's gulf coast. It houses exhibits highlighting Florida history from the prehistoric to the present. The Museum also features regularly changing exhibits in the East Gallery, as well as in other small galleries throughout the first and second floors of the Museum.
The lobby of the Bishop Planetarium located at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, FL
The "Boardroom" at the South Florida Museum is a unique meeting space with a view of the Parker Manatee Rehabilitation Habitat.
Snooty and handler on his 63rd birthday, July 2011
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Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee, the West Indian manatee, and the West African manatee. They measure up to 4.0 metres long, weigh as much as 590 kilograms (1,300 lb), and have paddle-like tails.
A skeleton of a manatee and calf, the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City
Skull of a West Indian manatee, the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City
Endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus)