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Virginia Living Museum live native animals - great horned owl

Address

524 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard
Newport News, VA 23601
Phone

757-595-1900

757-595-9135 (Program Registration)
City

Newport News

Locality

Newport News City
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View endangered red wolves. Get up close to a shark and jellyfish. See fish with no eyes and frogs that change colors. Touch live spider crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. It's all at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, where living exhibits depict Virginia's natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. Meet animals that live in a cypress swamp, mountain cove and limestone cave, plus in the Chesapeake Bay. See flying squirrels, stingrays and other creatures of the night. Kids especially enjoy the Touch Tank with its sea stars and horseshoe crabs, role-playing being an animal keeper and vet and exploring the Nature Playground. Travel the universe in the state-of-the-art digital planetarium. Outdoors, stroll the boardwalk to view coastal birds, beavers, otters, coyotes, endangered red wolves and other animals in naturalized habitats. Butterfly Garden, Virginia Garden and landscape plantings display one of the most extensive displays of native plants in Virginia. Learn how to live, build and garden green in the Conservation Garden and Green Living House. See 16 life-life dinosaurs on the outdoor Dinosaur Discovery Trail, plus explore the paleo camp, dig pits and dinosaur and ice age fossils. Open daily, closed Thanksgiving, Dec. 24-25 and Jan. 1.