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A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth’s history may have driven lampreys apart – genetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our current changing climate. “Lampreys are simultaneously creepy and special – even though people tend to think of them as just tubes with… Read More >

Image credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe. NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ researcher helps describe 270-million-year-old predator An international team of researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals in Spain have described a fossil animal that lived between 270… Read More >

[RALEIGH, N.C.] — Do you have what it takes … to live and work in space? Find out at “Journey to Space,” a new exhibition opening at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday, Nov. 2. This special exhibition, developed in partnership with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, invites visitors to explore the extraordinary… Read More >

Geologist Eric Roberts pictured with paleontologist Lindsay Zanno. You have a lot of questions about how a tyrannosaur and a Triceratops came to be buried together one day in the Late Cretaceous. So do we. To study ancient animals, paleontologists need expertise in the biological sciences and the geological sciences. This is because fossils are… Read More >

Composite image of a globular springtail jumping. By Tracey Peake, NCSU News Services Move over, Sonic. There’s a new spin-jumping champion in town – the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air, spinning to over 60 times its body height in the blink of an eye, and a new study features… Read More >