Aquarium

Tonight, the Mississippi Aquarium will light up the night skies with the Hancock Whitney Sea of Stars fundraiser.

It’s a free community celebration featuring food, music, and one-of-a-kind drone lights and fireworks show that will take place at Jones Park in Gulfport.

The Sea of Stars drone will launch into the darkness above the beautiful Mississippi Sound, creating illuminated three-dimensional shapes and characters such as alligators, dolphins, and turtles.

While festivities will be taking place at Jones Park, a VIP adult-only private event will take place at the…

It’s been a busy day at the Mississippi Aquarium. They had more than 100 students attend their home school days program, the largest one yet.

Each month, homeschool days takes place to give students pre-K through 12 a chance to explore and participate in hands-on educational activities.

This month’s topic was ocean zones. Students were able to explore the layers of the ocean and learn about the diversity of life in each ocean zone, the adaptations for each layer, and how researchers study the depths.

Worksheets and supplemental materials helped guide students…

NOAA Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services chose the Mississippi Aquarium as a recipient of an adult non-releasable Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle.

This new permanent resident was hatched from eggs collected in the wild in 1979 where she spent her life at the Cayman Turtle Centre as part of an experimental breeding program which has since been discontinued.

The aquarium’s turtle is just one of ten remaining of the original hatchling group.

She, along with the other nine turtles, flew to Sea World in Orlando in April where they received care during a 90-day…

The Mississippi Aquarium wrapped up its outreach program for the summer with some stellar numbers.

Over the course of the summer, Aquarium officials traveled more than 5,500 miles in June and July, reaching more than 3,000 children in libraries and camps across 45 Mississippi cities.

The outreach program provided participants with an overview of how Mississippi Aquarium operates through an interactive, hands-on learning experience.

Attendees had the opportunity to participate in several activities, such as constructing water filters, observing blood smears under a…

Tomorrow is ‘Women’s Dive Day.’ As we spotlight women in this male dominated industry, News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf stopped by the Mississippi Aquarium to speak with a member of their majority female dive team.

“You’ll hear a lot of parents talk to their kids about the divers in the water and they’ll say ‘look honey, he’s cleaning’ and I’m like actually ‘she’s cleaning.’”

Michaela Fruci puts on…