The Illinois State Museum is joining the National Park Service in celebrating the first National Fossil Day on October 13 to promote public awareness and stewardship of fossils, as well as foster a greater appreciation [Read More]
Natural History
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The American Museum of Natural History has reopened the famous display featuring the skeletons of two long-time combatants—an Allosaurus and a towering Barosaurus protecting her young—after a separation process that began in early August. The [Read More]
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, celebrates National Fossil Day on Wednesday, October 13, with a Family Fossil Fun Night! from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. National Fossil Day is a celebration established in partnership [Read More]
Natural History Lecture Series is on the second Wednesday night of each month except December. Area nature centers and naturalists show slide programs and talk on various natural history subjects. The program runs between 30-45 [Read More]
The Tianjin Polar Marine Museum has opened in Northern China, on display are tmore than 2,000 polar marine species from Russia, Canada, Australia and other countries. The polar marine museum is part of a “polar [Read More]
Two teams from the Natural History Museum are focussing on these remarkable landscapes to map the hugely varied species that can be found there. Supported by the New Forest National Park Authority and funded by [Read More]
Giving the public a behind-the-scenes look into the world of a scientist, The Utah Museum of Natural History’s Scientist in the Spotlight continues to blossom into one of its more popular public programs. On the [Read More]
The Utah Museum of Natural History is building a new home, to be called the Rio Tinto Center. The new Museum is expected to open in late 2011. The design for the new Natural History [Read More]
The American Association of Museums announced the re-accreditation of The Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah, a 15-year avouchment that recognizes the ongoing research and stewardship here at the Museum. “This [Read More]
Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the “lost continent” of Laramidia, formed when a shallow sea flooded the [Read More]
The Museum of the Earth, opens Half Shell: How and Why We Study Evolution on Friday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. – 8: 30 p.m. Tickets $10 Learn about all different kinds of bivalves – clams, [Read More]
East Lothian Council, working in conjunction with the Coastal Museum working party, has finalised plans for a new coastal museum based in North Berwick in Scotland. The plans are for the former school in the [Read More]
The Miami Science Museum (MiaSci), in collaboration with Ideum and the Institute for Learning Innovation, was awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to acquire a new spherical display system. [Read More]
For a limited time prior to analysis at the Natural History Museum, visitors to the Museum Of London Docklands , have the opportunity to view a skeleton of what is believed to be a North [Read More]
Dayton, OH – On Sunday, September 12 from noon‐5:00 p.m., the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery will celebrate the grand opening its new Discovery Zoo to the public with a ribbon cutting (12:15 p.m.) and free [Read More]
World Museum in Liverpool is the first place to breed an Indian ground beetle. Nowhere else in the world has successfully bred this species of beetle while it’s been in captivity. In 1968 the Beatles [Read More]
Time is running out to view what took four years, some 80 people, and over one million golden orb spiders from Madagascar to create: an 11-by-4 foot, naturally golden-hued textile on display in the Museum [Read More]
The Voříšek collection of more than 45,000 weevils has arrived at the Natural History Museum and some have been put on display. With 4,500 different weevil species, the collection is the largest of its kind [Read More]