One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunked […]
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The Natural History Museum will present, Bats: The Real Stars of The Night on 28 August 2010 12:30 – 13:00, 14:30 – 15:00 in the Attenborough Studio. A talk about the wonderful world of British […]
The Royal Tyrrell Museum turns 25 this year, with plans for a major birthday party, a special new exhibit and the anticipation of hitting a new attendance milestone. A new exhibit, Alberta Unearthed: 25 stories […]
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have created the first frozen bank for Hawaiian corals in an attempt to protect them from […]
The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, opens at the Natural History Museum, London 22 October 2010 – 11 March 2011, 10.00 – 17.50 daily. About the competition Now in its 46th year, […]
KUALA LUMPUR – The National Museum will organise a Snake Exhibition, showing 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes, for one month beginning Sept 4. Its director-general, Datuk Ibrahim Ismail said the exhibition would be held in […]
On Aug. 14, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open a new, temporary, traveling exhibition “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World.” The exhibition was developed by the American Society of […]
Believe it or not, pearls came before diamonds as fashion accessories PHILADELPHIA—Thousands of exotic treasures of the sea will be on display and for sale Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 9 and 10, when the Philadelphia […]
A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative effort between the American Society of […]
Dinosaurs are coming alive at the Museum of Nature & Science, October 21, 2010 through May 1, 2011. Discover dinos like never before with the opening of our newest travelling exhibition Dinosaurs Unearthed. The exhibit […]
The Shangdong Tianyu Museum of Nature in east China, has set a record for being the largest dinosaur museum in the world. The Museum, which opened in 2004 and is devoted to dinosaur and other […]
The American Museum of Natural History’s Explorer, a free app for iPhone and iPod touch that is part navigation system, part personal tour guide, is already garnering rave reviews. Explorer is “nothing less than state-of-the […]
The world’s largest and smelliest plant, nicknamed, Lois the corpse flower, has come into bloom at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, attracting thousands of visitors a day. The flower, nicknamed Lois after a staffer’s […]
Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird known to science and provides compelling evidence that modern birds are direct descendants of the dinosaurs; yet only ten have ever been found. One of the most complete archaeopteryx fossils […]
The Natural History Museum have announced one of the biggest ever urban tree surveys in the UK. Trees are essential in urban landscapes, helping to reduce noise and air pollution. But relatively little is known […]
ALBANY, N.Y. – A New York State Museum paleontologist has become the only scientist in the U.S. selected to participate in an all-expense paid research program in Spain that will enable him to investigate the […]
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum welcomed the newest and largest aircraft to date for the USS Yorktown’s flight deck on historic Charleston Harbor in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. on Thursday, July 8. The aircraft arrived […]
Children’s book author/illustrator Jerry Pinkney is the recipient of the inaugural Bull-Bransom Award, announced the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, which presented the award to the artist at a July 8 […]