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• Dodo bird a resilient island survivor before the arrival of humans, study reveals

  26 September 2011

  

   

• New dinosaur species named from hatchling fossil donated to National Museum of Natural History

  16 September 2011

  

   

• New 20-foot extinct species of crocodile discovered in Colombian coal mine

  15 September 2011

  

   

• Varied diet has allowed gray whales to survive millions of years, study reveals

  7 July 2011

  

   

• Scientists show that modern humans never co-existed with Homo erectus

  6 July 2011

  

   

• Fossil skull of an extinct toothed whale excavated from Panamanian sediments

  24 June 2011

  

   

• Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family campsite in the Canadian Rockies

  25 May 2011

  

   

• First rainforests arose when plants solved their plumbing problem

  3 May 2011

  

   

• Scientists discover new species of dinosaur bridging a gap in the dinosaur family tree

  13 April 2011

  

   

• Ancient bond between humans and dogs revealed in isotopic signatures of their bones

  10 March 2011

  

   

• New archaeological evidence reveals California’s Channel Islands as North America’s earliest seafaring economy

  3 March 2011

  

   

• Tyrannosaurus rex more hyena than lion

  1 March 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian Digital Repository Now Contains 10,000 Items

  2 February 2011

  

   

• Prehistoric bird able to yield extreme fighting force with club-like wings

  5 January 2011

  

   

• Fossil reveals 48-million year history of zombie ants

  10 November 2010

  

   

• Newly discovered prehistoric turtle co-existed with world’s biggest snake

  7 April 2010