Rare Dinosaur Eggs Discovered by N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Paleontologist
March 29, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. — Of all the ways humans interact with dinosaurs, eating their eggs is surely the most commonplace. Visit any home in America today and you’ll undoubtedly encounter a dozen or so biding their time in the fridge next to a quart of milk and brick of butter. Yet, finding a fossilized dinosaur egg… Read More >
“Voices of Light, Wood and Water” featured at Museum’s Nature Art Gallery in April
March 26, 2018
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery presents “Voices of Light, Wood and Water,” artwork by Linda Fuller. The show will run April 6–29, with a Gallery reception Saturday, April 7, 2–4 p.m. All exhibited art is for sale. Fuller is a North Carolina native who lived most of her… Read More >
Five new species of frogs identified in museum collections
March 21, 2018
New species Sylvirana malayana. Photo: L. Lee Grismer. https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/newsroom/five-new-species-of-frogs-identified-in-museum-collections/
New research solves the 60-year-old paleontological mystery of a “phantom” dicynodont
March 14, 2018
A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate “phantom” fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land animals. These bizarre plant-eaters with tusks and… Read More >
“Young Frankenstein,” scariest comedy of all time, comes alive at Museum March 23
March 13, 2018
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — It’s coming. From the deep, dark recesses of the mind of Mel “Blazing Saddles” Brooks. It’s “Young Frankenstein,” showing at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Friday, March 23 at 7 p.m. “Young Frankenstein” (1974, PG) stars Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, an American grandson of the infamous Dr. Victor… Read More >