Amazon farmers who vanished centuries ago were remarkably innovative
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For sweat bees, being social builds a more developed brain
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Eighty-thousand bark beetles enter National Museum of Natural History collections
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Females shut down male-male sperm competition in leafcutter ants
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Captive colony of Virginia big-eared bats providing valuable lessons in battle against deadly white-nose syndrome
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Researchers compile colorful on-line guide to marine algae of Panama
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Clouded leopard cubs born at National Zoo’s Front Royal campus on Valentine’s Day
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Smithsonian ecologists discover forests are growing at a faster rate
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Strawberry dart frogs bred at National Zoo for first time in Zoo’s history
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Climate change may drastically alter Chesapeake Bay, scientists say
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Trade in frog legs may spread diseases deadly to amphibians
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Smithsonian to lead study on degradation of nearshore coastal habitats of the Chesapeake
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In face of crisis, National Zoo to start captive population of Virginia big-eared bats
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Native bees prove resilient in competition with invasive African honey bees
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A dry spring in Panama means more sulfur butterflies, study reveals
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Roads kill rainforests. Stop them now, say Smithsonian biologists
