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An Osage History in Killers of the Flower Moon

Guest Contributor — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:12:06 +0000

Editor’s Note: HMNS Collections Technician of Anthropology Anna Dean details the victimization of the Osage people depicted in the film adaptation of the bestselling novel Killers of the Flower Moon. Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin ...

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Stinky Meg | Corpse Flower to Bloom

Guest Contributor — Fri, 26 May 2023 16:57:54 +0000

The Cockrell Butterfly Center has a plant that’s about to make a big stink! Her name is Meg, named after the prehistoric Megalodon shark featured at the museum’s new SHARKS! exhibit. Meg is an Amorphophallus titanum, also called the Titan Arum but more...

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Indigenous Cowboys: The Living History of Native Americans in Rodeo

Guest Contributor — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:57:30 +0000

Editor’s Note: Anna Dean, Collections Technician, highlights the Indigenous influences found in a cultural phenomenon known as the rodeo. It’s Rodeo season in Houston, which means that dozens of athletes from across the United States and Canada w...

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Cockrell Butterfly Center Emerges this Spring

Guest Contributor — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:30:00 +0000

The Cockrell Butterfly Center is best known for its, well, butterflies. Throughout history, the life cycle of the butterfly has been a symbol of rebirth and transformation. As many of you know, we have been closed since last September to allow the buil...

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Getting to the Poinsettia of it all

Guest Contributor — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:56:56 +0000

Now that the holiday season is upon us, let’s get to know a plant commonly associated with the festivities, the Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima). Native to Mexico, they are known as ‘Flor de la Noche Buena’, or ‘Flower of the Holy Night’. Poinsettias...

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Plan for Planting with the HMNS Museum Store

Guest Contributor — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:20:44 +0000

The plant cart in the museum is a great place to find some interesting plants and Greenhouse Manager Soni Holladay has curated a list of what you may want to grab on your next trip to the HMNS Museum Store. We regularly stock the cart with blooming ann...

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HELIUM BALLOONS ARE KILLING MARINE LIFE IN THE THOUSANDS

Guest Contributor — Thu, 19 May 2022 20:35:43 +0000

Written by Tina Petway, Associate Curator of Malacology and Marine Invertebrates While we all love to watch things fly up into the sky such as helium balloons, we do not see them when they eventually come back to earth. Unfortunately for marine and la...

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HMNS Celebrates Charro, the Green Iguana

Guest Contributor — Sat, 07 May 2022 18:45:48 +0000

Written by Celeste Castro, Animal Care Supervisor We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved iguana and Cockrell Butterfly Center resident, Charro. He died peacefully in his sleep on 5/6/2022 just 2 days after celebrating his 23rd birthday....

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Excellence in Science and Mathematics Student Scholarships and Teacher Awards 2021-22

Guest Contributor — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:10:00 +0000

Written by Scott Stevenson, Director of Summer Camps at HMNS / Youth Education Manager Through the generosity of the Cockrell Foundation, The Houston Museum of Natural Science is proud to offer the Evelyn Frensley Scholarship for Outstanding Achievemen...

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HMNS Explains | Telescopes 101

Guest Contributor — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:50:16 +0000

Written by Leonard Ferguson, George Observatory volunteer Have you ever gotten a new telescope? Are you possibly frustrated with not being able to figure out how that new ‘scope works? Next is figuring out how to really “see” those objects once you fin...

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Mute Swans: More than Just a Pretty Bird

Guest Contributor — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:23:01 +0000

Guest blog by Cathy Hou Editor’s note: Cathy interned with Dr. Dan Brooks, HMNS Curator of Vertebrate Zoology. Her hard work culminated with publication of this article on Mute Swans in our beloved Lone Star state: https://www.hmns.org/wp-content/uploa...

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Ramses & Nefertari: Journey to Osiris in VR

Guest Contributor — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:35:45 +0000

Written by HMNS Staff David & Alicia Furse Imagine – You open your eyes and see pale light illuminating the area in front of you. In the light, you see a massive block of stone with a carved foot on top of it. Your gaze is drawn higher and you, per...

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The Truth About Organ, Eye & Tissue Donation

Guest Contributor — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:23:00 +0000

By R. Patrick Wood, M.D. Recently the Beyond Bones Zoomcast welcomed R. Patrick Wood, M.D. from the organ procurement organization LifeGift onto the weekly interview show to chat about donating our organs after we die. We asked Dr. Wood to dispel some ...

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Women of the George | Passion for the Stars

Guest Contributor — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:54:05 +0000

Written by Jacquelyn DiStefano, HMNS Membership Manager Passion. It has a funny way of shaping your life, and for three women, a passion for astronomy brought them all to The George Observatory. Tracy Knauss, Hannah Lange, and Alicia Tristan have all f...

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Excellence in Science and Mathematics Student Scholarships and Teacher Awards

Guest Contributor — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:25:22 +0000

By Scott Stevenson, Director of Summer Camps at HMNS / Youth Education Manager Through the generosity of the Cockrell Foundation, The Houston Museum of Natural Science is proud to offer the Evelyn Frensley Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Sci...

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DNA Adds SPARK to HMNS Autism Awareness

Guest Contributor — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:56:56 +0000

Written by Dr. Robin Kochel, SPARK I will never forget the day that I learned that birds are dinosaurs. My family and I were visiting HMNS to finalize plans for my daughter’s birthday party on the Morian Overlook. This area provides a bird’s eye ...

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Artifacts from the Historic POMPEII Eruption have Arrived in Houston

Guest Contributor — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:28:08 +0000

For centuries, the story of what happened to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has captivated the world. The city lost and buried by the ash and volcanic debris of Mount Vesuvius remains a testament to nature’s fury, a tragic time capsule of life some ...

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The Science Behind Myths

Guest Contributor — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:27:02 +0000

You’ve likely stumbled upon a myriad of articles with titles similar to this “Big meanies use science to debunk the Loch Ness Monster myth”, or “Loch Ness Monster Hoax” and so on. Unfortunately, this blog here today is not going to help convince you of...

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Protected: From the Curator: The Purple Sea Snail – Upside Down Wanderer

Guest Contributor — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:26:45 +0000

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From our Collections: You Should See Me in a Crown – The Queen Conch

Guest Contributor — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:58:22 +0000

So what is a Queen Conch? First, they are Mollusks also commonly referred to as Sea Snails. They were once commonly found around the Florida coast and in much of the Caribbean Sea in great quantities. However they have been on the Endangered Species L...

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