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Mineral Monday season finale with Vera: Ichthyosaur

Mineral Monday competition winner, Vera, co-hosts this week's episode of Mineral Monday about the Ichthyosaur.

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We're are excited to share Mineral Monday competition winner Vera's wonderful explanation of the ichthyosaur for our season finale of Mineral Monday.

Mineral Monday season finale with Vera: Ichthyosaur

Mineral Monday competition winner, Vera, co-hosts this week's episode of Mineral Monday about the Ichthyosaur.

We're are excited to share Mineral Monday competition winner Vera's wonderful explanation of the ichthyosaur for our season finale of Mineral Monday.

Blue Mud

We're are excited to share Mineral Monday competition winner Vera's wonderful explanation of the ichthyosaur for our season finale of Mineral Monday.

Are Ichthyosaurs fish, lizards or dinosaurs? Learn the answer to this question in today's episode of Mineral Monday with the help of our Mineral Monday competition winner, Vera! Vera is a budding paleontologist and geologist. In fact, she brought in her own personal collection of 10 objects to share with Keck Museum curator Garrett Barmore which includes the mosasaurus tooth featured in her !

We're are excited to share Vera's wonderful explanation of the ichthyosaur for our season finale of Mineral Monday. Enjoy!


More about the Keck Museum and Mineral Monday

Located in the Mackay School of Mines building at the ÍƼöÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the first Saturday of the month from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.

The Keck Museum houses an outstanding collection of minerals, ores, fossil specimens, and photographs, in addition to mining related relics. The museum is also home to some of the spectacular Mackay Silver Collection, created by Tiffany & Co., for John Mackay and completed in 1878.

For directions and museum details, visit unr.edu/keck

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