University of Alabama's Museum of Natural History

Holiday cheer is being spread around by The University of Alabama Museums. Free events are being offered at Gorgas House Museum, Paul W. Bryant Museum and Alabama Museum of Natural History during "the most wonderful time of the year."

Football fans of The University of Alabama and Auburn University can compete in the realm of citizen science through the annual Marble Bowl ahead of the highly anticipated Iron Bowl. Participants can do so by submitting observations of wild plants, animals and fungi to one of two projects on the iNaturalist platform.

Fans of The University of Alabama and Auburn University can compete in the realm of citizen science through the annual Marble Bowl. Participants can do so by submitting observations of wild plants, animals and fungi to one of two projects on the iNaturalist platform.

A museum in Florence is offering kids and teens in Alabama the chance to get hands-on excavation experience this summer. Registration is currently open for Pope’s Tavern Museum’s Junior Archaeology Camp.

A recently published paper by a UA paleontologist shows a rare soft tissue discovered in a crab fossil. The crab lived 75 million years ago in the area of present-day South Dakota. Most animals and plants never fossilize with the exception of hard parts such as shells and bones and soft tissues such as muscles and gills.

A new art immersion project opening at Dothan High School showcases the importance of a prehistoric whale found in Alabama.

The Alabama Museum of Natural History is hosting a Paleontology Show and Tell. The event is for kids in first through third grades.

(TUSCALOOSA, AL)-- Different cultures eat them. They’re great recyclers, but they make many of us scream.The University of Alabama’s Museum of Natural…