NEWS

In 2022, Museum wildlife biologist Michael Cove and his colleague A.J. Sanjar traveled to Florida to survey the habits of opossums after fitting them with tracking collars. It didn’t take long before they ran into a problem: local pythons kept eating their study participants. Each felled opossum wasn’t only a lost source of information —… Read More >

If there truly is a sucker born every minute, why did it take so long to name this one? North Carolina stands out along the Atlantic slope of the United States as a true biodiversity hotspot for sucker fish in the genus Moxostoma, which includes redhorses and jumprocks. Its waterways host 10 distinct species, more… Read More >

We are excited to announce that construction of the Mary Ann Brittain Education Center is currently underway. This new Education Center (MABEC) will be located at the entrance to the Prairie Ridge Ecostation, the Museum’s 45-acre outdoor education facility in West Raleigh. MABEC will allow Museum staff to offer year-round programming with our indoor classroom… Read More >

If you’re a visitor looking for a moment of Zen, stop by the Museum’s Animals of the Eelgrass exhibit (NEC 1st floor) and check out the lined seahorses, now back on display after a tank refresh. Be patient as you look for them. They’re not all that small (2-4 inches) but they can be surprisingly… Read More >

In a small room at the left edge of the third-floor Paleontology Research Lab (NRC), you may notice someone working inside a clear, enclosed box. Peering through a microscope, fossil preparators guide a small compressed-air pen that directs a fine stream of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) onto the surface of a dinosaur bone. This is… Read More >