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• First North American Monkey Fossils Found in Panama Canal Excavation

  22 April 2016

  

   

• Sacred shrew mummies reveal species distribution in ancient Egypt

  22 April 2016

  

   

• Rare cancer cells discovered in naked mole rats

  21 April 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian Discovery: 46-million-year-old beetle had zinc jaws

  18 April 2016

  

   

• 25 Scimitar-Horned Oryx to be Reintroduced to the Wild in Chad

  13 April 2016

  

   

• Cownose Rays Aquitted: Not Guilty of Decimating Chesapeake Oysters

  11 April 2016

  

   

• Discovery: trap-jaw spiders snap prey with super-spidey speed and power

  7 April 2016

  

   

• In face of mass extinctions, Smithsonian’s Global Genome Initiative quietly saves world’s DNA

  5 April 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian scientist creating DNA database to track Caribbean conch and lobster

  24 March 2016

  

   

• A Purple Accident and Its Vibrant Impact on the Modern World

  23 March 2016

  

   

• Sun-like Star Shows Magnetic Field Critical for Life on the early Earth

  18 March 2016

  

   

• New golden frog species discovered in Colombia

  18 March 2016

  

   

• Blood-thirsty jungle horse-flies catch big chill from Smithsonian entomologist

  16 March 2016

  

   

• New horse-sized tyrannosaur with big brain reveals how “T. rex” became top predator

  14 March 2016

  

   

• Ghost octopod shows how little we know about deep-sea life

  8 March 2016

  

   

• Carotenoid pigments make extinct duck a rare bird indeed

  7 March 2016