Thompson honored for research

07/11/11 Fred Thompson, a malacology curator for the Florida Museum of Natural History, was recently recognized for his research on freshwater organisms.

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Las Vegas Natural History Museum Turns 20 With Party Saturday

07/14/11 You'd think that being a museum director would be a fun gig. And, except for the snake story, Marilyn Gillespie would agree. Bonnie, a Burmese python, is one of the live residents of the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, where Gillespie is executive director.

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New Jersey Fossil Dig Endangered by Low Cost Housing and Retail Development Plan

07/10/11 Jason Schein, Assistant Curator of Natural History, New Jersey State Museum, shows a fossil of the belly plate of an ancient sea turtle that was recently discovered at the site where Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara is leading an Archaeological team digging for fossils of 65 million year-old marine creatures, in Sewell, New Jersey.

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