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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 >

[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. 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 >

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 >

By Melissa Dowland, NCMNS Manager of Teacher Education Beneath the reflected branches of riparian trees in the tinted waterways of Wake and Johnston County, something slimy lurks. Hiding beneath rocks and fallen trees, in places you’d likely spare no second thought for, lives one of North Carolina’s most unusual animals. Neuse River waterdogs are aquatic… Read More >