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Part art gallery, part natural history museum, the Zuhl Museum houses 1,800 world-class specimens of petrified wood, fossils, and minerals, making it home to the largest and finest collection of petrified wood on display in the United States. The Zuhl Collection showcases fossils that span time and the globe, from a 3.5-billion-year-old Banded Iron Formation from Australia to a 2.6-million-year-old Giant Ground Sloth from Missouri. Among the rare fossils on display are “Archie,” the largest and only skeleton of an Archeria crassidisca (a reptile-like amphibian), and “Borealis,” a baby woolly mammoth skeleton.