NEWS

Check out this new episode of “Weird Science” with Public Radio East’s Annette Weston. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the same as those produced by ocean plankton on Earth. But North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences astrophysicist Dr. Rachel Smith… Read More >

Explore the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit with reduced noise effects and smaller crowds. Sensory Friendly mornings are free and occur the second Sunday of the month, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Dueling Dinosaurs fossil includes a pair of exquisitely preserved 67-million-year-old dinosaurs — a tyrannosaur and a Triceratops —… Read More >

The Living Conservatory at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is reopening Saturday, May 24. The popular exhibit, often referred to as the “Butterfly Room,” is modeled after a Central American forest and is filled with live animals. The two-toed sloth is a fan favorite, but the room also houses as many as 200… Read More >

Meet the bluehead chub, the fish that builds stone nests! In this episode of the popular (and kid friendly) Spanish podcast Camaleón, Ichthyology Collections Manager Gabriela Hogue of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences explains how it builds its nest, its unusual spawning method, and why it helps so many other species. Listen now: •… Read More >

From Cretaceous crabs to a big mighty female Carolina redhorse, Museum collections have unlimited stories to tell. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the ichthyology, paleontology and mammalogy collections with Dr. Adrian Smith, head of the Museum’s Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Lab and creator of the YouTube channel Ant Lab. “I think the coolest part of… Read More >