The Ocean contains more than 99% of the living space on the planet, yet only 3% of it has been explored. Almost every time scientists visit the deep ocean they discover new species. Catch the [Read More]
Natural History
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The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery presents Minerals Make Mountains on view through 3 Jul 2011. Victorian artist and thinker John Ruskin may not have got it totally correct when he said that “Mountains are [Read More]
The Stuhr Museum presents Wings Over the Platte Art Exhibit, on view through April 10, 2011. Wings Over the Platte, largely recognized as one of the largest and most prestigious art exhibits in Central Nebraska [Read More]
The Museum of Forestry in Whiteville, NC is currently closed to the public for renovation. The projected reopening is Spring 2011. The Museum, housed in a 17,226 sq. ft. former bank building on 1.9 acres [Read More]
The Virginia Museum of Natural History, through the Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative, is hosting the Piedmont Kite Festival on Saturday, March 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Jack Dalton Park in Henry [Read More]
The first major update of the American Museum of Natural History: Cosmic Discoveries iPhone App was released on February 15 as part of an ongoing effort to create a gallery of the universe that fits [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has reached agreements with the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District (SWSD) and the State Historical Preservation Office that will allow excavation crews to return to Ziegler Reservoir in [Read More]
A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or “thunder-thighs” after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica [Read More]
The Harvard Museum of Natural History will be buzzing with dozens of activities; SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, exploring the amazing world of insects and their relatives, spiders, crustaceans, and the many [Read More]
The Harvard Museum of Natural History announced the completion of the renovated permanent Africa gallery. This historic gallery has been renovated and reinterpreted, with new energy-efficient lighting and colorful graphic displays. The installation of a [Read More]
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) today has named as interim executive director David W. Ellis. Ellis is the former president of Lafayette College and the Museum of Science, Boston. He will temporarily replace [Read More]
14,700-year-old human skull-cup to go on display to visitors on 1 March 2011 Research published by palaeoanthropologists at the Natural History Museum, London, reveals Britain’s strange past with the earliest known examples of human skull-cups [Read More]
The Illinois State Museum and Pennsylvania State University recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Geoinformatics Program to develop the “Neotoma Paleoecology Database.” This database includes fossil data for the past 5 [Read More]
Penguin Beach, the Zoo’s brand new flagship exhibit for 2011, will be home to nearly 150 Macaroni and Humboldt penguins when it opens on the 27th of May. The new penguin pool will be four [Read More]
Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger is donating casts of the Australopithecus sediba to the National Museum of Natural History. The casts of these skeletons—which include two complete copies for public display and two copies for the Human [Read More]
The 2011 installment of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s “The Nature of Things” lecture series will emphasize solution-based insight on climate change featuring the President of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, as the [Read More]
The Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Science presents BIG BUGS: The World of Giant Insects on view now through August 21, 2011. BIG BUGS: The World of Giant Insects, is a traveling exhibition featuring [Read More]
The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park presents Butterflies Are Blooming open March 1 – April 30, 2011. A visitor favorite in its sixteenth year, Butterflies Are Blooming features butterflies from tropical regions around the [Read More]