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• Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of bird bones

  13 May 2013

  

   

• Smithsonian anthropologist Rick Potts answers questions about the Anthropocene

  8 May 2013

  

   

• First five years of Panama Canal excavations reveal fossil finds

  29 April 2013

  

   

• Ancient mummies reveal atherosclerosis is very likely just a part of aging

  9 April 2013

  

   

• Penguins once thrived in Africa; one endangered species lives there today

  3 April 2013

  

   

• Replicating whale fossils found in Chile

  12 March 2013

  

   

• Alligator relatives crossed ancient seaway

  4 March 2013

  

   

• How do paleontologists reconstruct environments from the ancient past?

  31 January 2013

  

   

• 4,000-year-old shaman’s stones discovered near Boquete, Panama

  14 January 2013

  

   

• Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have changed little in 46 million years

  7 January 2013

  

   

• Insect mimic of ginko-like leaf discovered 165 million years after its extinction

  29 November 2012

  

   

• Fossil pollen used to augment climate record of Egypt’s Nile Delta

  16 August 2012

  

   

• Conrad Labandiera, Smithsonian palentologist, studies fossils to learn how insects got along before flowering plants arrived

  19 July 2012

  

   

• Prehistoric turtle was size and shape of a big car tire

  11 July 2012

  

   

• Walrus whale 3-D skull scan

  9 July 2012

  

   

• Report paints a new picture of early human impact on the Amazon River Basin

  15 June 2012