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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 >

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is thrilled to announce new names for the Dueling Dinosaurs — Murphy and Manteo. The Dueling Dinosaurs are two of the most unique and best-preserved specimens ever uncovered. These 67-million-year-old fossils of a Triceratops and a newly confirmed Nanotyrannus have been on display in the Museum’s SECU DinoLab… Read More >

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences specialty license plate featuring one of the Museum’s most iconic dinosaurs on exhibit — Acrocanthosaurus, the “Terror of the South” — is now available! With each $30 specialty plate purchase, $20 goes directly to the Friends of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences — the nonprofit that supports the… Read More >

With cinnamon-colored feathers, a long, upturned bill and a curious name, the marbled godwit is distinctive in many ways. And when Museum ornithologist Dr. Brian O’Shea and colleagues spotted a small number of these birds during January fieldwork it wasn’t just cool, it was significant. In a new paper published in the Journal of Caribbean… Read More >