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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 >

[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 >