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• One-Stop Shopping for Federal Scientific Collections

  19 December 2016

  

   

• Squat lobsters: colorful kings of the ocean floor

  7 October 2014

  

   

• Gray whale specimen an important addition to Natural History Museum collections

  7 May 2013

  

   

• First detailed sex video of deep-sea squid resolves long-standing mysteries as to how these animals mate

  9 January 2013

  

   

• The Age of Plastic: Symposium June 7 & 8, 2012

  2 June 2012

  

   

• For a dentist, the narwhal’s smile is a mystery of evolution

  18 April 2012

  

   

• New exhibition looks at fishes from the “Inside Out”

  2 February 2012

  

   

• Bryan’s shearwater, new Hawaiian seabird species, discovered

  26 August 2011

  

   

• Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia yield 18 new species of rare ferns and flowering plants

  19 July 2011

  

   

• New study reveals desert tortoise is actually two distinct species

  30 June 2011

  

   

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

  24 June 2011

  

   

• National Zoo scientists successfully grow two species of anemones in aquarium tanks

  24 August 2010

  

   

• Modern African basketry joins anthropology collections of National Museum of Natural History

  29 July 2010

  

   

• Slide Show: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is 100!

  22 June 2010

  

   

• FluMist “live” vaccine enters Smithsonian collections

  12 November 2009

  

   

• Digital Stradivari: computer models of violins reveal master luthier’s techniques

  2 November 2009