We are excited about our Darwin Week event beginning this Monday February 8th. Join the AUMNH Feb 8th – Feb 12th as we celebrate Charles Darwin all week. Use GPS coordinates to find all 6 Charles Darwins hidden around campus. Each question will have a numeric answer that you will use to solve the puzzle to find the next set of…
Date: October 12th, 2019Time: 12:00 PM until 4:00 PM On Saturday, October 12, 12-4pm, the Davis Arboretum, the AU Museum of Natural History and the AU Vet School, will be hosting a one day outdoor exhibit of animal skeletons throughout the Arboretum. Guests can come enjoy an up close and personal look at some of their favorite animals in a whole new way!…
Join us on A-Day at the Vet School for the College of Veterinary Medicine’s 2018 Open House! The AUMNH will be hosting two exhibits. We will have museum specimens with live animals and a Gopher Tortoise education station. What: Part of the College of Veterinary Medicine Open House When: Saturday, April 7, 2018 Museum exhibits will be available from 8:30am –…
Join us at the Donald E. Davis Arboretum for the 2018 Donald E. Davis Arboretum”Azalea Festival”. The AUMNH will be hosting two exhibits. Come check out some of our over 2,000,000 museum specimens, swing by our Gopher Tortoise education station and meet some of our live animal friends. When: Saturday, March 31, 2018 – Museum exhibits will be available from…
Amazonas magazine published a report on a recent AUMNH expedition to Guyana to examine fish biodiversity. Follow the link below to read Nathan Lujan’s beautifully illustrated article and learn about some of the museum’s work in the field. Amazonas Article – Rediscovering a Lost Loricariid
Looking for an activity for the kids? Check out this Oceanography Link.
Spring has sprung and the rains have come! It is a great time of year to be a frog in Alabama. Alabama’s 33 frog and toad species form an integral part of the state’s ecosytems, and they provide the soundtrack to our spring and summer nights. Come and learn about these amazing creatures and find out how you can have a hand…
Join us on October 31st from 8:00 am – 10:00 am for a Nightmare on Mell Street. This year the AUMNH annual open house will be held before the Ole Miss game on this scariest of days. Come join us for a hair raising experience. Visit our collections and meet all kinds of creepy crawlies. Hold a spider, pet a…
Did you hear the one about the fish that looks like a Rodian bounty hunter? In a recent publication, a team of AUMNH scientists led by Dr. Johnathan Armbruster, AUMNH’s Curator of fishes, described three new species of suckermouth armored catfish belonging to the Family Loricariidae. One of these new species bares a striking resemblance to Greedo, the bounty hunter…
Check out the article below in which David Steen, a postdoctoral researcher with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program and AU Museum of Natural History, describes his mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of a turtle, performed while conducting research in Mobile Bay. In addition to recounting the rescue, the article highlights the diversity of our region, and the importance of the work by our…
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