Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay is not your typical aquarium. It's a total sensory experience designed to transport visitors to an undersea ocean of fantastic sights, sounds and encounters.
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Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage brings you face-to-face with white lions, white tigers, leopards and a family of bottlenose dolphins! Explore how you can interact with nature's most exotic animals in this wondrous world.
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The premier place in Las Vegas to explore the valley’s vibrant history through interactive science and nature exhibits, botanical gardens, and more.
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Experience the wonder and tragedy of the world’s most famous ocean-liner, Titanic. Viewed by more than 25 million people worldwide, the Exhibition is one of the highest attended in history.
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Explore the Ice Age
Mammoths, lions and camels once roamed along wetlands just north of what is now known as Las Vegas, Nevada. Their history is preserved at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and is ready to be discovered.
200 eye-popping cars with authentic street scenes and sounds. Think about all the engineering that went into creating the modern automobile!
Berlin is a Nevada Ghost Town, and the park highlights fossils of Ichthyosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles. A nature trail connects to campground to the Fossil Shelter, information and viewing windows are available at the Fossil Shelter if you cannot attend a scheduled tour.
The Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office website home page has some cool videos on the Devil’s Hole pupfish, Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise, Mojave Desert Tortoise Hatching, Sage Grouse Life History. They offer a number of education events and programs.
In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000 year old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. Come to Great Basin National Park to experience the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves.
E.L. Cord Museum School. Numerous, ongoing STEAM programs for youth (science, technology, engineering, arts, math).