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By Wendy Lovelady, Senior Exhibit & Media Developer, and Jess Wackes, PR & Marketing Coordinator. Photos by Matt Bertone. These beetles are bone cleaners. Dermestid beetles like these are in the business of cleaning bones. They are decomposers—they eat dead flesh, fur, feathers, or fibers. They leave only the bones behind. Young dermestids will work… Read More >

Detail of “Milky Way Crane” by Lee Mims. (RALEIGH, N.C.) — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery presents “Beyond Nature: From a Different Point of View,” artwork by Lee Mims. The show runs Nov. 1–24, with a Gallery reception Saturday, Nov. 2, 2–4 p.m. All exhibited art is for sale. Mims… Read More >

by Jon Pishney, Head of Communications. Facilitated by Jess Wackes, PR & Marketing Coordinator. Photos by Karen Swain, Web Editor. More times than I can tell, I’ve heard visitors say that our Museum is so big they can’t see everything in one day. I’ve been working here 16 years and I still run across things… Read More >

Aye aye. Click on image to enlarge. Photo: David Haring/Duke Lemur Center. https://news.ncsu.edu/2019/10/aye-aye-extra-finger/

Raleigh, N.C. – A collaboration between the Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity (OSUMC) and The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) has led to the identification of a new species of crayfish in the southeastern United States. Meet Lacunicambarus dalyae, or the jewel mudbug, a large, colorful burrowing crayfish found throughout Alabama, Florida,… Read More >