Fluorite is very popular amongst collectors and museum visitors due to its beauty and relatively common occurrence. Learn more about this beautiful mineral featured at NHMU.
Meet our amazing Terataphoneus specimen, the most complete tyrannosaur ever found in the Southwestern U.S., and Ann Johnson, NHMU's talented preparator who worked on the skull.
What’s covered in spikes and 76 million years old? The answer isn’t a prehistoric pincushion. It’s Akainacephalus johnsoni, the newest dinosaur to be named from Utah.
![[image] Fluorite of Utah and Beyond](/sites/default/files/fluorite_lead_image.jpg)
![[image] The Many Colors of Tourmaline](/sites/default/files/tourmaline_blog_image.jpg)
![[image] Fantastic Fossils Reveal Utah's Cambrian World](/sites/default/files/trilobite.jpg)
![[image] A Butterfly Case from early 20th Century Utah](/sites/default/files/b1 cropped.jpg)
![[image] NHMU50: Saving an Allosaurus Graveyard](/sites/default/files/allosaurusnhmu.jpg)
![[image] A Strange and Mysterious Insect Was Found in Museum Collections First](/sites/default/files/treehopper (1).jpg)
![[image] The Museum's Wall of Wonders](/sites/default/files/collectionswall.jpg)
![[image] Historic Photography of Native Americans of the Southwest](/sites/default/files/1D6A4730_lead.jpg)
![[image] How to Prepare a King](/sites/default/files/ann_2.jpg)
![[image] Spiky-Headed Dinosaur a First for Utah](/sites/default/files/Akainacephalus-croppedweb-by-Andrey-Atuchin_0.jpg)