Piedmont Natural Gas today announced support for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ new Nature Research Center, currently under construction in Raleigh, through a $250,000 Environmental Grant from the Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation. The grant was given to Dr. Betsy Bennett, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, during a special check […]
Collection Will Be Inspired by the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the National Museum of Natural History The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, and QVC, one of the world’s largest multimedia retailers, have entered into a licensing agreement to offer a jewelry collection based on objects in the National Gem […]
London’s Natural History Museum’s “Butterfly Explorers” exhibition opens Apr 8 through Sep 26 2010, featuring examples of butterflies from all over the world offering visitors the chance to learn how they live in different climates. Four different habitat zones will be represented in the Butterfly Explorers display: South America, North America, Asia and Africa. Visitors […]
PETERSBURG, Ky., – The Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau last night awarded the Creation Museum the “Star of Tourism” award, its top annual honor, recognizing the museum’s contribution in attracting visitors to the region. Museum co-founder and CCO Mark Looy was on hand at the Bureau’s 2009 Annual Meeting to accept the award on […]
The Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas recently announced the discovery of the oldest definitive bird fossils yet recorded in North America, an enantiornithine bird from the lower Middle Cenomanian (approximately 96 million years before present) of Texas. The specimens found near Grapevine Lake were recently published in one of the profession’s foremost publications, […]
Two new exhibits offered by the Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History will open Thursday, March 25, at the Old Capitol Museum. An opening reception, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the first floor rotunda of Old Capitol Two new exhibits offered […]
Press preview of Rainforest Life, at ZSL London Zoo, Thursday March 25th 2010 at 10am. London’s only living rainforest, built by zookeepers and housed inside a giant bio-dome, will be a vast breeding facility for free-roaming monkeys, sloths, birds and bugs. With real rain and living trees this tropical rainforest replica in the middle of […]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani – A team of researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has described a new genus and species of carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania. The fossil skull, found in 2004 near Pittsburgh International Airport, was recovered from rocks deposited approximately 300 million years ago during the Late Pennsylvanian Period. Named Fedexia striegeli, it […]
A new exhibition hall dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins opens March 17 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Based on decades of cutting-edge research by Smithsonian scientists, the David H. Koch (pronounced “coke”) Hall of Human Origins will open to the public in a special preview from noon to […]
