Exhibits include displays of live vertebrates and invertebrates.

Visitors can feed the display animals such as the spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera).

The tadpole madtom (Noturus gyrinus) is a small catfish with a venomous dorsal spine!

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The broad-banded water snake (Nerodia fasciata) eats fish and small amphibians!

Lesser sirens (Siren intermedia) are aquatic salamanders with front legs but no hind legs. They retain their external gills throughout their lifetime.

“Sammy” has been in captivity for over 7 years and is nearly 2 feet long!

Dissecting microscopes are available to observe smaller plants and animals.

Touch tables allow visitors to handle items from both fresh and saltwater habitats.

Fossils from local river beds such as this crab fossil from the Oligocene epoch over 30 million years ago are also on display.