Submissions Due By: October 16 at 4:30 pm Let your inner artist shine and join us for the Cook Museum’s first pumpkin stencil design contest! We want your help to create the carving designs that will be carved onto pumpkins that will be displayed in the live animal enclosures in the Discover
Collaborative Wheeler Scavenger Hunt
All About Alabama Scavenger Hunt
Eastern Subterranean Termite Facts
How to Safely Remove a Spider from Your Home
Velvet Ants
Eastern Hellbender Skin Shed
Museum Animal Care Staff Raising Jellies
Diamondback terrapin bloopers
Spider Special
Did you know that spider silk is one of the strongest natural materials found on our planet? A spider’s silk is 5x stronger than a piece of steel of the same size!
Fascinated by Fog
Fog… the word is associated with everything from lethargy to romance to suspense. Fog sets the tone in the most iconic movie scenes: the final goodbye in Casablanca, Jack Nicholson stumbling through a snowy hedge maze, Mr. Darcy striding across the fields at dawn. What creates this
Awesome Volcanoes
Volcanoes! The word itself conjures images of tumbling, racing lava and massive clouds of ash. Volcanoes result when underground molten rock (magma), bits of solid rock, and steam break through the earth’s surface. If this matter and energy builds up pressure before suddenly
