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September 23, 2014

Baby Rattlers on Greenbrier Ridge

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September 19, 2014

OHC Curator E. S. Thomas warns about DDT use… in 1948!

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September 9, 2014

Free talk on “Magnificent Monsters of the Ice Age”!

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July 24, 2014

Welcome to our new Curator!

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June 27, 2014

Timber Rattlers — Going, Going, Not quite Gone!

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June 24, 2014

Playing Musical Mastodons!

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June 2, 2014

That’s one HUGE rodent!

We had two international researchers make a special trip to Columbus this week just to examine specimens in the natural history collections! OK, they're from Canada, but that's still international right!? Anyway, we were pleased to welcome Tessa Plint and Dr. Fred Longstaffe of the Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science at the University of Western […]

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May 27, 2014

Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson!

Today is the 107th birthday of Rachel Carson. Unfortunately she died too young, at only 56 years old, of cancer. Ironically one of her greatest accomplishments was helping to ban agricultural use the synthetic pesticide DDT, which was later discovered to be linked to breast cancer. Her accomplishments are too numerous to describe in this […]

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February 19, 2014

Bob Glotzhober receives the “Naturalist” award!

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January 13, 2014

Grandma Gatewood

One of the most iconic figures in the world of hiking, not to mention a national symbol for overcoming adversity, is the amazing Emma "Grandma" Gatewood. From Gallipolis, Ohio she was the first woman to hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail. She hiked the entire 2,168 miles of the trail in 1955, and […]