NEWS

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 >

By Chris Goforth, Head of Citizen Science, and Morgan Gilbert, former NCMNS Intern. Facilitated by Jess Wackes, PR & Marketing Coordinator. Monarch butterflies are iconic and easily recognized residents of the Americas. They are widely distributed across North America, from Mexico northwards to southern Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. What’s special… Read More >

By Erin Apple, NCMNS Educator, and facilitated by Jess Wackes, PR & Marketing Coordinator   Like most Americans, I was raised with the classic narrative to “prevent fires at all costs.” While this is sound advice for protecting human property in the short term, many of our threatened and endangered species and southeastern ecosystems depend… Read More >