Animal Grossology

Palm Beach Daily News

If you love learning gross stuff about science then head to the South Florida Science Museum sometime before January 9th to see the new Animal Grossology exhibit. It's an interactive exhibit aimed at both kids and adults to teach us about the more disgusting side of nature. "Through Animal Grossology, kids and adults alike can learn the biology behind snail slime, fly vomit (yuck!), the blood cravings of leeches and more," says the Palm Beach Daily News.

One of the exciting things created for it is an interactive station in which you crawl through a submarine type display and through the windows look out to see facts about certain sea creatures. "The sea cucumber, for example, will sometimes expel sticky portions of its primitive respiratory system to try to fend off a predator." The exhibit is based on the children's line of Grossology books written by Sylvia Branzei. It appears the disgusting side of nature is more appealing than it seems.


The South Florida Science Museum features over 50 exhibits, a planetarium, both freshwater and saltwater aquariums, and a few natural history exhibitions.