NEWS

Explore the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit with reduced noise effects and smaller crowds. Sensory Friendly mornings are free and occur the second Sunday of the month, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Dueling Dinosaurs fossil includes a pair of exquisitely preserved 67-million-year-old dinosaurs — a tyrannosaur and a Triceratops —… Read More >

The Living Conservatory at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is reopening Saturday, May 24. The popular exhibit, often referred to as the “Butterfly Room,” is modeled after a Central American forest and is filled with live animals. The two-toed sloth is a fan favorite, but the room also houses as many as 200… Read More >

Meet the bluehead chub, the fish that builds stone nests! In this episode of the popular (and kid friendly) Spanish podcast Camaleón, Ichthyology Collections Manager Gabriela Hogue of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences explains how it builds its nest, its unusual spawning method, and why it helps so many other species. Listen now: •… Read More >

From Cretaceous crabs to a big mighty female Carolina redhorse, Museum collections have unlimited stories to tell. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the ichthyology, paleontology and mammalogy collections with Dr. Adrian Smith, head of the Museum’s Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Lab and creator of the YouTube channel Ant Lab. “I think the coolest part of… Read More >

When’s the last time you watched a two-toed sloth have a physical? Or saw a tumor being removed from a copperhead? These are just a couple of the types of medical procedures that could be happening on any day at the Museum. Because along with housing enough live animals to be considered a mid-size zoo,… Read More >