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Around 20 million years ago, in a time known as the early Miocene, an interesting selection of large mammals roamed eastern North Carolina. Where now you might see white-tailed deer and black bears, back then humans (if they had existed) might have run across a little red panda or even a rhinoceros. Add to that,… Read More >

One morning in late April, Research Curator of Herpetology Dr. Bryan Stuart drove to Raleigh-Durham International Airport to pick up an unusual passenger. Seems a live tree frog had become an accidental stowaway in the luggage of a person flying in from Honduras. When Stuart met with the U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents who… Read More >

Forget Dutton Ranch. This summer, a dozen science educators from across North Carolina will experience the natural world like never before as part of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Yellowstone Institute. From June 18 to 26, Museum educators will lead a select group of teachers through Yellowstone — America’s first national park —… Read More >

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 >