Adaptations

Diversity

Life Cycle

State Symbols

Marine mollusks provide scientists with records of climate changes and evolution over the last 500 million years. This exhibition includes specimens from the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, from Massachusetts to Mississippi. The species range from the spectacular to the microscopic. One of these species, Chesapecten jeffersonius, was chosen as the Virginia State Fossil in 1993.

Click on the links above for more information about this fascinating exhibition, open in the Museum's Harvest Foundation Great Hall from June 21 to November 30, 2008.