7 Questions with Local Entomologist and Author Eleanor Rice
The author of the book Your Pets’ Secret Lives talks about what inspired a niche career writing about the wonders of the natural world.
Tag: science
Meet the Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural Sciences
Some 290 million years ago, giant dragonflies and saber-toothed mammals ruled the earth — then a mass extinction took them out.
Love in the Rain: A Salamander Congress
On damp nights in the winter in North Carolina, a mating ritual surfaces where thousands of salamanders gather to lay eggs.
Moon Shot: Raleigh’s Lunar Meteorites
At the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, bits of rock from outer space are a chance to contemplate our place in the universe.
Poinsettia Power
NC State professor Dr. Brian Jackson’s soil research comes to fruition each holiday season in the most vibrant way.
Raleigh Paleontologist Lindsay Zanno Introduces her New Dinosaur
Zanno calls this relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex the “harbinger of doom”