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April Vacation Week at the National Marine Life Center
Learn, share, explore at the National Marine Life Center this April Vacation Week! We’re open April 18-27, 2014 (except Easter Sunday) from 10 am to 5 pm. With a variety of programs including favorites such as Little Flippers Club and Marine Animal Medical Mystery, as well as new programs such as Marine Animals of the […]
NMLC Pairs with Playwright for Family-Friendly Comic Mystery
The National Marine Life Center is delighted to announce a second partnership with playwright Eva Schegulla for SEAL TIDES, a new family-friendly comic mystery geared to the Center’s mission, to debut this spring. This program is supported in part by grants from the Bourne Cultural Council and the Mid-Cape Cultural Council, local agencies which are […]
Registration Open for the 2014 Feet, Fins & Flippers 5K!
Registration is now OPEN for the 4th Annual Feet, Fins & Flippers 5K! Come one, come all! Use your FEET to help our FINNED and FLIPPERED friends! Join runners, walkers, and animal-lovers in a 5K run/walk to raise money for the National Marine Life Center! This is a fun, family oriented, pet-friendly event that also […]
February Vacation Week at NMLC
Looking for fun and educational activities over February Vacation Week? Come visit the National Marine Life Center! We have a variety of programs suitable for every age group! We’ll be open daily, February 15-23, from 10 am to 5 pm. Our programming takes place Monday-Saturday. With different themes daily, you’ll want to come back often! […]
Join us For the Love of Turtles!
It seems everyone has a turtle story. This February 15, share your turtle stories and make some new ones at the National Marine Life Center’s “For the Love of Turtles” Open House! There will be lots of activities including arts and crafts and education programs. You’ll also get to meet Tide the loggerhead, our ten […]
The Ridley in the Library with the Candlestick, right?
Did you know that the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was at one time considered the most mysterious turtle of the Gulf coast? According to prominent sea turtle naturalist Archie Carr, the ridley was maddeningly perplexing. Recently I have been reading Dr. Carr’s accounts of his experiences searching for sea turtles throughout the Gulf coast and […]
Become an Extra in Cool Stuff Dolphins!
Join us at the Cool Stuff Dolphins fundraiser and become an extra in the film! “Cool Stuff Dolphins” is a program by Purple Turtle Productions, Inc. that was filmed in part at the National Marine Life Center. It promotes education, science, conservation, and increased awareness of our oceans and the dolphins that inhabit them. For […]
Thomas C. McGowen Fund For Animals Awards NMLC with Grant Funds
The National Marine Life Center in honored to report that we will be the recipient of $5,000 in funding from the Thomas C. McGowen Fund for Animals in 2014. The grant funds were awarded to NMLC in order to install seawater discharge piping in our marine animal hospital, and install a seawater cooling system on […]
Working with the Red-Bellies
Working with the northern red-bellied cooter hatchlings at the National Marine Life Center has been a real treat. The hatchlings came to the Center on my first day of interning and were practically the size of quarters, but now after only a few months they’ve grown noticeably bigger. Being able to care for and witness […]
Sea Turtle Surprise
Before I started interning with NMLC I had never before considered working with sea turtles. It’s not that I did not like turtles but more simply that my attention was drawn to the flashiness of marine mammals. However, now that I have been working with the Kemps and Tide for a few months, I have […]