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Left Photo: Visitors were amazed at seeing, reading, and learning about the kinds of fish that are native to Arizona.

Middle Photo:  Morgan Ford, biologist, captured this photo of his son, Gabe, showing a drawing of eggs being laid at different water levels in the Grand Canyon. SBSC conducts quality, objective research on the terrestrial and aquatic systems of the Colorado Plateau, Colorado River and its tributaries, drylands across the larger Southwest US, and beyond.

Right Photo: Do you know a turtle and a tortoise are both turtles, but they are not the same? One way to tell the difference between them is a turtle lives in water, but tortoises dwell on land. Visitors got to see turtle shells, pictures of various turtles, and learned a lot of interesting facts about these cool reptiles.  Do you know “Of the 356 species of turtles and tortoises worldwide, approximately 61% are imperiled or have already gone extinct?”