NEWS

Photos taken by 2023 City Nature Challenge participants. Pictured left to right: margined calligrapher (a type of hover fly), purple martins, and a Piedmont ghost firefly female. By Chris Goforth, NCMNS Head of Citizen Science The City Nature Challenge (CNC) took place April 28–May 1, 2023, and the Museum joined in the fun once again!… Read More >

By Kimberly Catauedella, News & Observer The latest in our Asked & Answered series, in which we answer questions from the community, looks into car damage by rodents — specifically squirrels. Apex resident Donna Provance let us know she and her longtime partner Erik Lechak dealt with squirrel-inflicted damage to their 2001 Ford Ranger last… Read More >

By Darrell D. Stover, Head of North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program The competitive North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program is one of the many ways that the State of North Carolina invests in sustaining and advancing one of the most diverse and widespread networks of science museums in the country. These museums are critical… Read More >

Falls crayfish (Cambarus burchfielae). Photo: Mike Perkins. Click to enlarge. [RALEIGH, N.C.] — Tucked into the niches of neighboring streams, each draining off the Blue Ridge Mountains, reside two new species of crayfish found in North Carolina and nowhere else on the planet. Meet Cambarus lapidosus, aka the Stony Fork crayfish, named after a small tributary… Read More >

A piece of plastic debris that’s been colonized by both coastal barnacles (pink and striped) and a gooseneck barnacle from the open ocean. Photo: Linsey Haram/SERC Marine Invasions Lab. By Nell Greenfieldboyce, WUNC Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens… Read More >