Colorado railroads helped unearth many fossils as railroad tracks were laid. Construction crews often exposed these unusual and fascinating bones as they were digging and laying railroad ties. Trains were then used to transport these [Read More]
Natural History
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Curate My Community exhibits open at Mount St. Joseph University, Children’s Theatre, Kenton County, Boone County and Hamilton County libraries CINCINNATI – The next time you head to the library to check out a book [Read More]
13th annual celebration of insects at Museum Center June 4 CINCINNATI – Bugs. Some walk, some slither, some even fly. They’re everywhere. And now they’re getting their proper due at BugFest , Cincinnati Museum Center’s [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA — Tarantulas have a reputation that precedes them—terrifying, fast, hairy, scary. This winter you can see the biggest, baddest and most fearsome of all spiders in Tarantulas: Alive and Up Close, opening Jan. 30 [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Get up close and personal with live bats and learn more about these incredible but misunderstood creatures during BatFest on Saturday, October 24. Join local experts and organizations for a day of hands-on [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is preparing to open an exhibit of mammoth importance. Big Bone Lick: A Place of Discovery will open in the Ruthven Gallery at Cincinnati Museum Center on October 10. The [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Calling all dino dude and she-Rexes! From trilobites to T-Rexes, mastodons to brachiopods, fossils are taking over Cincinnati Museum Center during Fossil Fest on October 17, a celebration of those hardened remains that [Read More]
CINCINNATI – There’s something big coming to Cincinnati Museum Center. While Shark Week whips the world into a frenzy every summer, at 55 feet long and 48 tons, Whale Week promises to be even bigger. [Read More]
UNION, KY – Something mammoth is going on at Big Bone Lick State Historic Site. The Big Bone Lick visitor center is getting a makeover as part of a revitalization project to vividly tell the [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA — Oozing with disgusting science, Animal Grossology provides a slight off-kilter view of the animal kingdom starting Saturday, May 16, with its grand opening at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Get [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center and American Exhibitions, Inc., producers of Mummies of the World, continue their efforts to support the local community by inviting nearly 50 Boys & Girls Clubs members and staff as [Read More]
Water Conservation Education Exhibit shares the importance of water in our everyday lives CINCINNATI – Water is essential to life, a fact that the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District knows well. With the [Read More]
The Curious Mister Catesby opens Apr 19 with lecture and panel discussion CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is hosting an exhibition featuring the works of Mark Catesby, North America’s first naturalist. In conjunction with the [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Swim alongside massive humpback whales on a journey beneath the waves and around the globe. Humpback Whales opens February 13 in the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater at Cincinnati Museum Center as [Read More]
New exhibit explores story of extinction and lessons to save species on the brink CINCINNATI – The extinct Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that flocks darkened the skies, is making a return to Cincinnati. Martha: [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center and Cincinnati Zoo join in efforts to research and educate about endangered species CINCINNATI – A rare Sumatran rhinoceros named Ipuh has found a new home at Cincinnati Museum Center. A Cincinnati [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA (October 14, 2014) — It is the biggest snake that ever roamed the planet, and it is coming to Philadelphia in February 2015. At 48 feet long and 2,500 pounds, Titanoboa cerrejonensis grew as [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center hosts Fossil Week October 15 – 18 CINCINNATI – Whether you’re an amateur paleontologist who can name every dinosaur from the Jurassic period or you can’t tell a trilobite from a triceratops, [Read More]