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39512
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Among the things North Carolina Natural Museum’s staff voted as the best from its Nature Exploration Center and Nature Research Center: Diving Pelican, Coastal Hall Exhibit; Mountains to the Sea; Maine Lobster, Arthropod Zoo; Window on Animal Health; Micro World iLab; and Touchable Meteorites.
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28447
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Liani Yirka is the accessibility and inclusion coordinator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Yirka helped introduce technologies and programs enabling fully independent navigation for people of varying abilities. All exhibit content is available regardless of visual impairments or hearing loss.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue 2, Spring 2017, p20-23, il, por Periodical Website
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Almost a year ago an Eastern screech owl arrived at the NC Museum of Natural Science from the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte. The owl had been struck by a car and the accident had left it nearly blind. If returned to the wild, the owl would die because of its inability to find food; however, it now has a future as part of the museum's educational programs.
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North Carolina Naturalist (NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 15 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p5, il
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The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences' bird collection was started by H. H. Brimley over one hundred years ago. Today, it contains over 13,000 prepared specimens, representing 1,200 species worldwide and about 420 state species.
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3768
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Staff members of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences not only collect birds but they also conduct field studies. For example, the museum undertook a study with N.C. State University, Westvaco Corp., and International Paper to see how wildlife is affected by timber management.
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34719
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Whale sharks are occasional visitors to the coast of North Carolina, especially when warmer-than-average water travels up from the south. In 1934, a whale shark larger than 40 feet long was found dead in the Cape Fear River; Herbert Hutchinson Brimley, affiliate of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, was able to record the tail and create part of an exhibition. Since then, the whale shark has become a much more active part of the North Carolina ecosystem.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley, immigrant English boys, came to Raleigh in 1880. Herbert became an outstanding taxidermist and worked for the Museum of Natural Science for sixty years, fifty-one as curator and director. Clement was an entomologist for the Agriculture Department. He published over two hundred animal-related papers and two landmark books, The List of Insects of North Carolina and Birds of North Carolina. The Brimleys were the state's most influential naturalists, whose work left a lasting mark on the state.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 46 Issue 1, Fall 2006, p34-35, il, por
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22596
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Since 1893, thirteen diamonds have been discovered in North Carolina as a result of gold or monazite panning. One such diamond found in Burke County, North Carolina resides in the Geology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It was donated from the estate of J.A.D. Stephenson who discovered emeralds and hiddenite in Alexander County, North Carolina.
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29172
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In September, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences celebrates the 21st annual Bugfest. This year will highlight the unique dragonfly species present throughout North Carolina.
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North Carolina Naturalist (NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Summer 2017, p6, por
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21040
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Liz Baird, NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, has been named Environmental Educator of the Year by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina. Baird has had a 15-year career with the museum. The award recognizes \"an educator who stands out, exemplifies excellence, lends credibility to the field, and is regarded as a \"dynamo\" that other environmental educators strive to emulate.\"
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North Carolina Naturalist (NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 18 Issue 2, Fall/Win 2010, p17, il, por
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4537
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Floor plans and photographs describe the features visitors will see on each of the four floors in the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which opened April 1, 2000, in Raleigh.
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21021
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The NC Museum of Natural Science has built a 38-acre outdoor education station known as Prairie Ridge. The purpose of the construction was to build eleven shallow ponds ranging from sizes of 15x30 feet to one acre that would attract and provide frogs, toads, and salamanders with a place to lay their eggs. Burgess provides a description.
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North Carolina Naturalist (NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 15 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p6-7, il
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20850
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The old museum is right next door to the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Estimates are that it will take at least five months to move the heavy boxes of books, delicate containers of plates, and over 3,000 live animals, not to mention the offices of nearly one hundred staff people. Walters explains what it will take to move the Southeast's largest natural history museum.
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North Carolina Naturalist (NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 7 Issue 2, Fall/Win 1999, p10-11, il
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh contains thousands of specimens and skeletons of fish, amphibians, and invertebrates. Items date from 1890 to 1999. Green discusses the various collections and how scientists use them to reveal habitat information.
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The 30-foot-long skeleton of a humpback whale, killed in a boat collision in Beaufort Inlet, has been acquired by the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. It will replace the 67 year-old finback whale skeleton, whose bones have become brittle.
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