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::Lucy Lecture at HMNS:: Tonight is your chance to catch the discoverer (how weird does that sound?) of the infamous, Lucy, now on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Special Lecture: Lucy's Legacy The Houston Museum of Natural Science Distinguished Lecture Series presents Lucy's Legacy, presented by Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist and discoverer of Lucy. Lucy continues to be a diadem in the crown of hominid fossils and serves as an important touchstone...

Amateur entomologists may finally have a financial incentive for keeping their creepy little friends around, or in this case, trading them in. The Houston Museum of Natural History is offering cold hard Cash for Cockroaches with the goal of collecting 1,000 of our twitchy little house mates for the New Brown Hall of Entomology. Admittedly, 25 cents a pop may not be enough to lure one away from a career in investment banking, but...

Good morning, Houston. Have a roach problem? How about turning it into a windfall? The Houston Museum of Natural Science is offering 25 cents per roach for the first 1,000 live, healthy American cockroaches people bring in. No kidding: a whole quarter for trapping and transporting a roach! The roaches will be used for a museum display on insect sanitary engineers — seems the critters, which are often associated with filth, are actually known...

A Roman Feast: Menu of Menus Extravaganza + Imperial Rome Exhibit Feast your sights and tastes on an evening of grandeur when the Houston Press and Houston Museum of Natural Science host the 5th annual Menu of Menus Extravaganza. Delve into the aromas of cuisine sampling from over 40 Houston-area restaurants, as well as wine, vodka, beer-tasting, and live entertainment. When in need of a gastronomical break, wander into an extensive collection of over...

Spend the Night on Blue Bayou Join the Buffalo Bayou Partnership tonight as they kick-off a year long series of stargazing, boat rides, storytelling and more along the Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade. The newest addition (and possibly our favorite) to the Buffalo Bayou hike and bike and trails, gives Houstonians multiple access points to bayou canoeing. The awarding-winning, and might we add, spectacular-looking, unique blue lighting creates a much needed outdoor friendly environment for nearby downtown,...

The Houston Museum of Natural Science couldn't have timed the opening of Frogs! A Chorus of Colors any better. With all the rain we've seen this week, it's almost as if Houston's frog population is coming to out lend support.

If you didn't get enough of skeletons this Halloween, don't worry. The Houston Museum of Natural Science spent four years in negotiation with the Ethopian government to bring Lucy, one of the world's most famous skeletons, to the United States. Lucy was a hominid who lived 3-4 millions years ago. Her skeleton was unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 and has only been on public display twice, both in Ethopia. A replica is on display currently,...

Paper by Design has some amazing pumpkin photos. We can only wish for that kind of talent, our efforts look more like a two year old did the carving (Houstonist Warning: Toddlers and knives do not go well together!! Always supervise closely when the little ones want to "help".) We found a site where you can hone your carving skills and try your hand at lots of designs, without all of the scooping and...