{"id":190352,"date":"2026-04-09T01:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190352\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:36:47","slug":"news-12-bronx-frogs-and-friends-exhibit-opens-at-sacred-heart-universitys-discovery-science-center-and-planetarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190352\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Frogs And Friends Exhibit Opens At Sacred Heart Universitys Discovery Science Center And Planetarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sacred Heart University&#8217;s Discovery Science Center and Planetarium has an exciting new traveling exhibit called <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shudiscovery.org\/special-exhibits\/frogs-and-friends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Frogs and Friends.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Monday, staff held a ribbon-cutting for the exhibit, where staff say visitors can expect to see a colorful and diverse world of amphibians and their friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Animals, enclosures and their feeders are sponsored by Josh&#8217;s Frogs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Staff encourage guests to get more involved in conservation efforts for the creatures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say everyday actions can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Frogs are an incredibly important indicator species. If your frog populations aren&#8217;t doing well, then your environment is not doing well,\u201d said Alex Young, senior director of exhibits and facilities at the SHU Discover Science Center and Planetarium. \u201cThey&#8217;re really important both scientifically and also just fascinating creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The center is located at 4450 Park Ave. in Bridgeport. Young says the exhibit will be there all summer long.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacred Heart University&#8217;s Discovery Science Center and Planetarium has an exciting new traveling exhibit called &#8220;Frogs and Friends.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-190352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}