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Gathering seashells is one of the delights of a beach trip; everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline. Generations have trusted Hugh Porter’s ,”Seashells of North Carolina” to help identify favorite shells. This revised and expanded edition from the experts at North… Read More >

Summer exhibition mixes fascinating stories with urgent messages about pollinators. [RALEIGH, N.C.] — Transform into bees, bats and butterflies and get your game on in the vibrant world of “Amazing Pollinators,” opening at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday, June 15. The centerpiece of this unique, bilingual (English and Spanish) exhibit is… Read More >

Dr. Dan Dombrowski holding the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle he helped rehabilitate from a cold stranding event. Photo: Annette Weston/Public Radio East. By Annette Weston Sea turtles are among the most captivating creatures found on the eastern North Carolina coast, and one was recently set free after being nursed back to health; it was stunned… Read More >

SECU DinoLab Manager Eric Lund prepares to saw through the tyrannosaur femur. Photo courtesy of NCSU. One of our research questions concerning the Dueling Dinosaurs is the age of the dinosaurs when they died. For our tyrannosaur, is it small because it is young or because it is an adult of a smaller species? Since… Read More >

The Dueling Dinosaurs tyrannosaur skull. Photo: NCDNCR. Just like your skull, the Dueling Dinosaurs tyrannosaur’s skull once housed and protected essential soft tissues such as the brain, the inner ear and sinuses. Studying these tissues can help us understand the senses and physiology of our predator, but they decomposed long ago during the fossilization process…. Read More >