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Photo: Sönke Johnsen. [RALEIGH, N.C.] – Be amazed by the diversity and uniqueness of ocean life in a photographic tour of the oceans’ wildest inhabitants with Duke Professor Sönke Johnsen. With “Art Meets Science in the Open Sea” – held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m…. Read More >

Three-time NC State graduate Christina Koch has been selected as one of four crew members for NASA’s Artemis II and will become the first woman to fly to and around the moon. The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission, from left to right, NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Victor Glover, Canadian Space Agency astronaut… Read More >

Specimens are shown inside the Naturalist Center in the Museum before the temporary closure to the public for exhibit construction. Photo: Karen Swain/NCMNS. March 28, 2023 by Jennifer Allen, Coastal Review The Naturalist Center in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh currently is closed to the public during construction of a new… Read More >

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. 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 >