Decapods are a group of crustaceans that include shrimp, crayfish, lobsters, and crabs. These animals have 5 pairs of locomotor legs, which is where their name comes from. Easy to remember, right?

Lucy has taken up residence in the anthropological exhibit. She is a life-size model of a female Australopithecus afarensis.

Sometimes you can read about something and believe it, but until it is empirically verified, something still bothers us. And just as in the fairy tale of "The Princess and the Pea", the royal daughter was bothered by a small seed from the legume family, so we, at the Center, were bothered by the lemon.

You've probably heard about a grain of sand that falls into a shell and causes a pearl to form? We're afraid the reality might be a little different. But let's take it one step at a time.

This month we have some information for you about our common (but not ordinary) red squirrel.