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Renaldo Kuhler, scientific illustrator, displays his work for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 56 Issue 3, Mar 1992,
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733
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley immigrated in 1870 from England to Raleigh, where their inexhaustible interest in the natural world left a lasting mark on NC. The state Museum of Natural Sciences is the most visible record of their achievements.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 52 Issue 12, Dec 1988,
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3526
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Dr. Wayne Starnes is the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences' first full-time curator of fishes in the 118-year history of the institution. With over 700,000 marine and freshwater specimens, it is the nation's fifth-largest regional collection.
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3536
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Purchased with $3 million in private funds, the skeleton of an Arcocanthasauras dinosaur will be displayed in 1999 at the new N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. It will be the only one of its kind exhibited in the world.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 62 Issue 3, Mar 1998,
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3743
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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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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 62 Issue 5, May 1998,
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6.Tropics in Carolina by Walters, Nancy North Carolina Naturalist Vol. 6 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1998
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3765
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The new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which opens in 1999, will contain a three-story glass Living Conservatory. The exhibit will recreate a dry tropical forest complete with plants, animals, and sounds.
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3767
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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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3927
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Wilmington is donating the fossil remains of a prehistoric giant sloth, found there in 1991, to the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences. It is the most complete sloth skeleton ever found in the state. The creature weighed three tons and was eighteen feet long.
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Scheduled to open April 7, 2000, the new North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh will be the largest natural science museum in the Southeast. The seven- story, 200,000-square-foot structure quadruples the old museum's exhibit space. The museum's focus will be serving as an indoor field guide to the natural diversity of the state. A featured attraction is the 112-million-year-old skeleton of a predatory Arcocanthosaurus, which is displayed nowhere else in the world.
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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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4552
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For those who enjoy taking a step back through time, the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh is a treasure trove of fossils collected along the North Carolina coast, coastal plain, and Piedmont. Included in the collection are a rare 500-million-year-old Pteridinum carolinaense, one of only seven found worldwide and the only one on exhibit; a 110-million-year-old dinosaur; and a rare right whale.
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4571
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The new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, scheduled to open April 7, 2000, in Raleigh, will be the largest of its kind in the Southeast. The museum is planning a 24-hour grand opening, which will be the first round-the-clock opening ever held in the state.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000,
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4622
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Built in 1879, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science existed for over a century in cramped quarters. Now the Raleigh museum has moved into a 200,000-square-foot, $71 million structure that is being called the premier natural science museum in the Southeast.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 5, May 2000,
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5113
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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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