Day 3 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 3 chalcedony roses 🌹

Day 2 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 2 megalodon teeth 🦈

Day 1 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection: 1 snowflake obsidian ❄️

And it's (almost) a wrap on 2025! 🦕🌍💎🎊

Some of our favourite PME Tree decorations so far! 🎄🎁

Join PhD Candidate in Oceanography Becca Beutel @bbeutel.bsky.social for her first research cruise on the La Perouse biochemical survey! Spotting whales, dolphins, squid, pteropods... sounds like a pretty great first research cruise experience, even if we agree the night shift sounds a bit scary!

George the Lambeosaurus is passing through your feed to wish you a roar-some holiday season! 🦕🎅🎁🎄

GOOD NEWS! Find out how the country of 3.5 million people with an impressive GDP of $80 billion managed to achieve 99% green energy! 💨

Plastic pollution is set to double by 2040 — but it doesn’t have to. A new roadmap study shows existing solutions could cut plastic pollution by 83%, reduce health harms by over half, and support 8.6 million jobs 🌍

Who doesn't like to pretend they are the weather person on the news? 🤷‍♀️ So silly, and yet, one of our most popular exhibits! 😜

Before vs After Do you think we'll see the globes again? 👀

We are so lucky to store our collection and showcase our exhibits in these GORGEOUS buildings! Wow.

Our Dorothy the elasmosaurus was named after Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... cause they both came from Kansas!

Our OmniGlobe is the best way to view Earth, the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, or even the Sun without ever leaving campus.  You can choose from a selection of over 300 projections 🤯 Visit it for free at the Gem Gallery inside our Main Gallery! 🌍💎

We have a new exhibit in the making! What could it beeeee 👀🌍

Dorothy the Elasmosaurus breathes air, lives in water, and has 72 neck bones. Well, had.  Now, she rocks 😉

Every rock in our museum has a wild backstory. Some were born in volcanoes. Some were buried for billions of years. Some… were decorative paperweights.

Our fossilized femur? You can touch it, just don’t try to take it home. It’s 73 million years old, and we’re very attached.

Some fossils are casts, some are molds, some are poop. Yes, there’s a scientific word for fossilized poop. It’s coprolite. (We know. We giggle too.)

Our oceanography exhibit explains anglerfish romance: the male literally fuses into the female’s body. It’s… commitment.

Your phone is basically a portable mine — gold, copper, lithium, indium… all in your pocket. And yes, that’s why we have a whole case on e-waste.

The Acasta Gneiss specimen in our museum is 4.03 billion years old. One of the oldest rocks on Earth... Basically the museum’s quiet grandma (and older than any questionable sauces in your fridge).

Did you know? Our Mineral Rainbow exhibit is prettier than any Instagram filter (no other opinions allowed) and comes with a crash course in physics, colonialism, and even how shrimp see light 🌈🔬

Our dinosaurs are frozen mid-drama: Daspletosaurus chasing a Dromaeosaurus over a Chasmosaurus snack. Basically, prehistoric dinner theatrics.

Not edible. The Lytton Jelly Roll is the world’s largest sedimentary swirl — a 2-meter rock that rolled underwater 12,000 years ago and made geology look delicious.

PME fun fact! The climate hallway is themed around a murder mystery, where different clues and scenarios will help visitors “solve” the mystery of climate change.

@eoas.ubc.ca and @pme.ubc.ca are hosting Volcano: A science comedy show by Ben Miller this Wednesday evening! Tickets are FREE but there are only a few left so get yours while you can - www.eventbrite.ca/e/volcano-a-... Be prepared to "erupt" with laughter 🌋🔥

Did you know that this photo of George is the Wikipedia photo for his species - Lambeosaurus?  How fancy. He's like the Lambeosaurus celebrity of the dino world. He was also the 1st to be found, the type specimen for his species, AND he has been featured on TV shows and stuff! GO GEORGE!!! 📣

Did you know that Dorothy, our elasmosaurus, is named after Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz? That's because they both come from Kansas 🇺🇸

Did you know that the Lytton Jelly Roll is the world's largest turbidite? A turbidite is a sedimentary structure caused by an underwater avalanche. Usually, they are just a couple of centimeters in length!

Did you know that the autumn colors (pigments) were there all year long? But they were masked by the green of the chlorophyll! The deciduous trees break down the chlorophyll, absorb the nutrients it contained back into the wood for winter storage, and the other colors have a final chance to shine🍁

Did you know that some rocks are made from animals and plants? They are called organic sedimentary rocks and form out of organic (carbon-containing) molecules from once-living organisms.

Fun fact: The Bolivian Salt Flats, or Salar de Uyuni, are characterized by two main shapes: the polygonal, honeycomb-like patterns visible in dry conditions, and a vast, flat, reflective surface during the wet season.

And that's show business for you, baby ❤️‍🔥 - George the lambeosaurus 🦕 #universityofbritishcolumbia #ubcstudent #pacificmuseumofearth

Together, Canadians must do more than just talk about reconciliation; we must learn how to practise reconciliation in our everyday lives—within ourselves and our families, and in our communities, governments, places of worship, schools, and workplaces. -Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because the “P” is silent. 📸 Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs, but giant flying reptiles with bat-like skin wings, hollow bones, and sharp beaks. They lived alongside dinosaurs, but are not related, and primarily glided on air currents.

#WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay is observed annually on September 26th to raise awareness about critical environmental health issues. Environmental health is one of the largest fields within public health because of the myriad ways external forces can impact how people eat, live, and grow.

Why was the sedimentary rock so cheap? Because it was always on shale. 📸 Shale, a fine-grained, sedimentary rock that forms from compressed mud, clay, and silt, often containing organic matter.

This year, the autumnal equinox falls on Sept. 22 at about 11:19 AM PDT 🍁 It is the moment when day and night are approximately equal in length across the globe. The word "equinox" comes from Latin, meaning "equal night".

Geology rocks… and geography is where it’s at.  (Ha ha. Get it. GET IT?)

Why don’t climatologists trust the atmosphere? Because it’s always up in the air 😁 📍 Pacific Museum of Earth, UBC, Vancouver

Which dinosaur knows the most words?

Today is #WorldOzoneDay and we celebrate one of the most effective international agreements ever to be made.  "This achievement reminds us that when nations heed the warnings of science, progress is possible." António Guterres

With us geologists, it’s ore or nothing. 📸 Manganese ore

Why are meteors great world leaders? Because they always make a GREAT IMPACT. 📍 Vredefort crater, South Africa The Vredefort crater is the biggest on Earth and is roughly 2 billion years old. The original crater was thought to be up to 186 miles (300 km) in diameter, but has largely eroded away.

Geologists are foodies - we never lose our apatite. 📷 Apatite

Whatever you do, always keep your COAL. 📷 Peacock coal, National Geographic

Be patient with us geologists, we all have our faults. 📍 San Andreas fault, California

What natural disaster is caused by a horse? A tor-NEIGH-do  Now go check out our tornado machine! 😉

Why are algae always single? Because they prefer PLANKTONIC relationships! But look at how GORGEOUS phytoplankton is! 😱