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• Two new species of extinct camels discovered in Panama Canal excavations

  29 February 2012

  

   

• Earthworms to blame for decline of Ovenbirds in northern Midwest forests, study reveals

  29 February 2012

  

   

• Leap Day the Frog Way

  29 February 2012

  

   

• Photos reveal recent activity in moon’s crust

  28 February 2012

  

   

• Evolution of earliest horses driven by climate change

  27 February 2012

  

   

• X-ray flares observed by Chandra are asteroids being torn to pieces in a black hole

  27 February 2012

  

   

• Boom and bust cycle of marine biodiversity every 60 million years linked to uplifting of continents

  23 February 2012

  

   

• Chandra X-ray Observatory clocks stellar wind at 20 million mph

  23 February 2012

  

   

• Levi Strauss Jeans, 1875–96

  22 February 2012

  

   

• Waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere is new class of planet

  21 February 2012

  

   

• Wayne Clough & Carlos Jaramillo, at a research site near the Panama Canal.

  16 February 2012

  

   

• Black hole came from a shredded galaxy

  15 February 2012

  

   

• Is obesity predestined at infancy? Marmoset study may help scientists find out.

  14 February 2012

  

   

• First fish App from the Smithsonian free on iTunes. “The Smithsonian Guide to the Shore Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific”

  14 February 2012

  

   

• Hoop Skirt, c. 1870

  14 February 2012

  

   

• “Anastrepha conflua,” new fruit fly species

  13 February 2012