Usa today 10 best readers' choice 2017.

Vote for National Aquarium Best Aquarium A walk through the National Aquarium, located in a beautiful Baltimore waterfront park, takes guests on a journey around the world. Australian exhibits showcase crocodiles, fruit bats, snapping turtles and venomous snakes, while the tropical rain forest habitat houses sloths, tamarins, tarantulas and a variety of colorful birds. The aquarium is in the process of launching the nation’s first sanctuary for bottlenose dolphins. VOTE HERE

Usa today 10 best readers' choice 2017.

Help get Port Discovery Children’s Museum into top 10 and Vote for Best Museum for Families Families visiting the Port Discovery museum in Baltimore will find three floors interactive and educational exhibits designed for children ages birth through 10. The 80,000-square-foot facility opened in 1998 and features permanent exhibits like Adventure Expeditions, where kids travel back to Egypt circa 1920, and KidWorks, a three-story “urban treehouse” meant for climbing, crawling, jumping and sliding. Infants and toddlers have their own dedicated space, called Tot Trails. VOTE HERE

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More Than Meets the Eye Researchers now know that the white-and-black splotches that give spotted eagle rays their common name form a pattern unique to each individual animal! This was determined using photo identification, which has also been used to show the individual qualities of humpback whales’ flukes and great white sharks’ dorsal fins. READ MORE Upcoming Events 22 FEBRUARY 22, 2017 • 6:30 PM – 9 PM Member Evening 25 MARCH 25, 2017 • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Project Clean Stream at Masonville Cove 1 APRIL 1, 2017 • 9 AM – 2 PM Nassawango Atlantic White Cedar Restoration 6 MAY 6, 2017Read More →

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Calling all Doctor Who fans! This spring, from March 24 to March 26, the third annual Doctor Who convention (Re)Generation WHO will come to Baltimore’s Renaissance Hotel. https://regenerationwho.com/ For convention attendees and vendors, we offer a flat$15 rate here at Harbor Park Garage! To save your space, follow this link to prepay and skip the wait at the garage. https://goo.gl/9YnCEE About the Convention The convention begins at noon on Friday, March 24 and lasts until Sunday at 5 p.m. Regular full weekend ticket prices, when purchased in advance are $80 in advance for adults ($90 at the door) and $20 for children 5-12. Single-day ticketsRead More →

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      MINI BION “BIONs” – short for Believe It or Not – is the word we use at Ripley’s to refer to anything that is unbelievable and worthy to become part of Ripley’s lore and collection. Why Don’t UPS Trucks Turn Left? Mar 03, 2017 05:19 pm – By: Colton They credit their policy with having delivered an extra 350,000 packages. Read Story Turkeys Circle Dead Cat in Bizarre Ritual Mar 03, 2017 12:53 pm – By: Colton One theory is they’re stuck in a game of follow the leader. Read Story Lost Helicopter Pilot Asks Truck Driver For Directions Mar 02, 2017Read More →

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Another season of the Read to Reef book club with Enoch Pratt Free Library started March 1! Read to Reef Returns The Read to Reef program offers free admission to the Aquarium for participating Baltimore children up to fifth grade with a Pratt Library card. Children read five aquatic-themed books to gain free admission to the Aquarium for themselves and up to three guests! START READING LEARN+MORE Baby Cockatiels in Australia! Three cockatiel chicks have hatched in our Australia: Wild Extremes exhibit! Weighing just two grams at birth, the chicks are now close to 90 grams and fully fledged, meaning they’ve grown their colorful feathers!Read More →

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Healthy First Saturday Saturday, March 4 | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Learn More Exercise your mind and body at Port Discovery’s Healthy First Saturday event! With spring right around the corner, it’s a great time to get kids active and playing in a healthy, fun way! Join us on Saturday, March 4th and take part in yoga for kids, learn about health and wellness with the UMBC Health Fair, and get Kinderfit! with the Kindersinger! Also learn about asthma with hands on activities from the Johns Hopkins University Asthma Study, visit with service dogs from FIDOS for Freedom, enjoy fun family art projects,Read More →