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Eastern Box Turtle | Rat-tailed Maggot | Batfish | Mystery Crystals | Glowworms | Pokeweed | Grass Carp Teeth | Eastern Dobsonfly | Armored Mudballs | Marine Bristle Worm | Black Widow Spiders | Clematis | Hawks at Your Birdfeeder | Fossil Shark Teeth | Copperhead vs. Ratsnake | Baby Orb Weaver Spiders | Hammerhead… Read More >

Artist’s rendering of battling tyrannosaurs and Triceratops horridus. Illustration: Anthony Hutchings. © Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Click image to enlarge. Museum will launch global paleontology education and research project featuring “America’s most spectacular fossil” [Raleigh, N.C. — Nov. 17, 2020] — The nonprofit organization Friends of the North Carolina Museum of… Read More >

  Dr. Adrian Smith, Head of the Museum’s Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab, has posted a new video showing close up how the click beetle jump works. Dr. Smith says, “The spring-loaded “click” of a click beetle is one of the most unique ways of jumping in the insect world! Once I heard about how… Read More >

A global archive with movement data collected across three decades logs changes in the behavior of Arctic animals Warmer winters, earlier springs, shrinking ice, and increased human development — the Arctic is undergoing dramatic changes that are impacting native animals. Researchers from around the world have now established an archive for data documenting movements of… Read More >

By Martie Rose, Intern at the Naturalist Center Evergreen bagworm. Photo: Matt Bertone. The Evergreen Bagworm Mature male & female bagworms. Click to enlarge. The Evergreen Bagworm (​Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis​) is a highly misunderstood insect found in the Eastern United States. Worldwide, there are over 1,350 different species of bagworm inhabiting conifer trees such as cypress,… Read More >