Spring semester began Monday, January 25, with a mix of in-person instruction and expanded online classes. Visit Mason’s Safe Return to Campus Plan for COVID-19 updates.
Exhibit cases outside of Exploratory Hall, Room 1309 include fossils and casts of fossils of all sorts. You can see a skull of a sabertoothed cat (Smilodon fatalis), the remains of trilobites, the skull of the giant Stellar’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), Virginia’s state fossil the Jefferson’s scallop (Chesapecten jeffersonius), along with many others.