NEWS

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 >

The house sparrow is a highly invasive pest in North Carolina, and bluebird enthusiasts frequently throw their eggs out and remove their nests to keep them from overtaking the nest boxes that bluebirds call home. A new study puts those discarded eggs to use in detecting heavy metal contaminants in bluebird habitats, which often border… Read More >

The North Carolina Wildlife Federation has announced the winners of its 61st Annual Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards and Dr. Arthur E. Bogan — research curator of mollusks for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences — was named Natural Resources Scientist of the Year. Honorees for 2026 include agency professionals, elected officials, volunteers and organizations… Read More >

Newly published fossil specimens discovered by an international team of scientists, including the Museum’s Research Curator of Paleontology Dr. Christian Kammerer, are greatly expanding our knowledge of life at the ancient equator. The early Permian Period, roughly 285 million years ago, was a time of change for life on Earth: increased glaciation at the South… Read More >