Posted: June 26, 2018

Question Your World: What Can Dino Dandruff Teach Us?

The most recent dino discovery has enabled experts to better understand the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. This is not your standard dinosaur bone discovery, but it certainly is head and shoulders above the rest.

Question Your World: What Can Dino Dandruff Teach Us?
Posted: June 21, 2018

What’s Buzzing at the Museum?

The observational honeybee hive in our EcoLab is un-BEE-lievably sweet, but recently the Museum added a new spot for the native bee pollinators that’s creating a lot of buzz!

What’s Buzzing at the Museum?
Posted: May 31, 2018

Question Your World: How Many Species Are Left to Be Discovered?

We currently know there are about 1.2 million species to be recorded by science. What’s left to be discovered, however, is very interesting.

Question Your World: How Many Species Are Left to Be Discovered?
Posted: March 21, 2018

Question Your World: Can the Platypus Help Save Lives?

For scientists, the scope of discovery can range anywhere from the totally straightforward to the totally weird. And if we're exploring the world of the weird, one animal seems to come up quite a bit: the duck-billed platypus.

Question Your World: Can the Platypus Help Save Lives?
Posted: December 6, 2017

What Do Women Scientists, Conditioning Techniques, and Rats Have in Common?

Training Norway rats to play basketball is pretty hard. But what might be more difficult is deciding what to name the seven new rat basketball trainees at the Museum!

What Do Women Scientists, Conditioning Techniques, and Rats Have in Common?