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The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum's dinosaur skeleton exhibits have been popular with generations of children, since they first were exhibited in 1868.
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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
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Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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