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RALEIGH — Ants! What they lack in size, ants more than make up for in numbers, and they offer countless behaviors to explore. Ants are Earth’s first farmers and shepherds, they engineer floating pontoons and enslave other ants, and their combined weight actually equals humanity’s. Yet despite all these intriguing facts, we mostly ignore this… Read More >

RALEIGH — Educators, have you ever wondered how estuaries breathe, and why fish sometimes can’t? Or wanted to learn what lives on your skin, and the cool adaptations that enable them to do so? Then you’re invited to visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, September 9 from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.,… Read More >

RALEIGH — “Up Close and Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects,” photography by Stan Lewis, opens at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery on Friday, September 2 and runs through Sunday, October 2. A Gallery reception will be held for Lewis on Saturday, September 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. Lewis,… Read More >

RALEIGH — Friday night programming at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is back with new movies, programs, food, and a new name — Final Fridays! Do zombies exist? Are there really 40-foot-long anacondas? Did old sci-fi movies get anything right about the 21st Century? On Final Fridays, you’re invited to come explore the… Read More >

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery is currently featuring the artwork of North Carolina artist Rosalynn Villaescusa now through Sunday, August 28. The paintings included in Under the Microscope were completed in 2010.  Each oil painting was completed by observing magnified insects. Using the intricate detail in their forms… Read More >