Burmese python in Florida.

The Strange Way a 12-Foot-Long Invasive Python Was Caught

March 27, 2023

In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons By Meghan Bartels on March 20, 2023, Scientific American An opossum nicknamed Prairie Dog met a gruesome fate last fall in Key Largo, Fla., when it was squeezed to death and then swallowed whole by… Read More >


Denise Young

Denise Young Named Next Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

March 15, 2023

Denise Young. Click for larger image. [RALEIGH] The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources announced today that Denise Young has been named the next director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Young is currently the executive director of the Bell Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state’s official natural history museum… Read More >


Reptile & Amphibian Day 2023

Vipers of the world featured in science museum’s Reptile and Amphibian Day, March 11

March 7, 2023

[RALEIGH, N.C.] — All vipers are venomous, some more so than others. North Carolina is home to five species of viper: copperhead, cottonmouth, timber rattlesnake, eastern diamondback rattlesnake and pigmy rattlesnake. But vipers are found globally, and their diversity is astounding. Africa has the large Gaboon viper, which has the longest fangs of any snake… Read More >


Live foraminifera.

Miniature marine fossils tell big story at NC Museum of Natural Sciences presentation Feb. 9

February 6, 2023

Live foraminifera. Photo: Dr. Kate Davis. [RALEIGH, N.C.] – What exactly are foraminifera? What makes them so special? Join oceanographer Kate Davis to hear how some of the smallest organisms in the open ocean can tell us so much about how the oceans responded to climate change in the past and what the future could… Read More >


Astronomy Days 2023

NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Astronomy Days, in person and out of this world, January 28–29

January 10, 2023

RALEIGH, N.C. — This year, learn all about “Humans in Space: Past, Present and Future,” as the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28–29. Speaking of humans in space, NASA astronaut and North Carolina native Christina Koch is this year’s featured presenter…. Read More >