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Cretaceous Creatures is a public science project that seeks to inspire, educate and collaborate with 8th-grade science students across the state and beyond as they do real science with real fossils. The fossils students are finding are tiny, but their discoveries are big! From 2022-2024, 14,000+ middle school students in North Carolina identified more than… Read More >

Photo: Brendan Landis, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr. By Annette Weston, Public Radio East “It was a staple of many B movies, cartoons, and TV shows in the 60s and 70s; now quicksand appears more often in memes by the 50-something crowd on social media. “PRE’s Annette Weston set out to discover whether quicksand is… Read More >

[RALEIGH, N.C.] — Don’t miss “Dia de la Ciencia y la Cultura” (“Science and Culture Day”), a brand new and fully bilingual (Spanish-English) event celebrating science and Hispanic culture at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Saturday, August 3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Free.) Whether you’re a science enthusiast, student or just curious,… Read More >

Fona herzogae. Illustration: Jorge Gonzalez. By Tracey Peake, NCSU News Services The age of dinosaurs wasn’t conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The new species contributes to a fuller understanding of life during the mid-Cretaceous –… Read More >

Photo: Cambodian Ministry of Environment. “A previously unidentified species of gecko has been discovered at the Phnom Preah Kuhear Luong (luong caves) in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas district [Cambodia]. The discovery is the result of a two-year research project, according to the Ministry of Environment. “The study was conducted by specialists from the ministry, in… Read More >