NEWS

If you look close enough at the shell of a turtle, you might discover something you didn’t expect. Placobdella ali is a species of North American leech known to parasitize freshwater turtles, most often the common snapping turtle. The species was originally described in 2007 from specimens collected at Silver Mine Lake in New York… Read More >

From the mountains to the coast, 58 institutions across the state have been awarded a total of $2.4 million in grants as part of the North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program. The program is one of the many ways that the State of North Carolina invests in sustaining and advancing one of the most diverse… Read More >

Dr. Adrian Smith – Head of the Museum’s Insect Research Lab and creator of the Ant Lab channel – recently filmed the attacks of dryinid parasitoid wasps (Gonatopus sp.) on their prey/hosts … hopper nymphs. The footage is the first of its kind and is part of a new study describing the anatomy, kinematics and… Read More >

Christian Kammerer, research curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, knows more about one version of our state’s natural world than almost anyone — a version from before the ocean touched our coast, before it was even part of North America. He lives here with us, but studies life that vanished… Read More >

This week, nine exceptional North Carolina educators will participate in the Museum’s Educators of Excellence Institute in Yellowstone National Park. One of the many connections between North Carolina and Yellowstone that the group will explore is wolves. Yellowstone National Park is famous for the successful reintroduction of gray wolves in 1995. Wolves had been extirpated… Read More >