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A traveling exhibit organized by the American Museum of Natural History called Amazing Species: Life at the Limits makes a stop at its affiliate museum, Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park. The exhibit, which opens Saturday and runs through Jan. 17, 2017, describes how creatures have adapted to survive in harsh environments. On Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, Justin Steeve (cq) and Jacob Smith with the American Museum of Natural History in New York put the finishing touches on a display of fish adapted to living in the darkness of caves, where eyes are no longer needed.

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Creatures that live at extremes populate new exhibit at Prairiefire

Sep 30, 2016

A traveling exhibit organized by the American Museum of Natural History called Amazing Species: Life at the Limits makes a stop at its affiliate museum, Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park. The exhibit describes how creatures have adapted to survive in harsh environments. Take a sneak peek a the exhibit before it opens Saturday, Oct. 1.

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