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• Paleo-detectives energize great whale mystery: how & when baleen evolved

  7 April 2017

  

   

• Discovery: Australia’s invasive cane toads modify their bodies to conquer new territory faster

  14 November 2016

  

   

• Did ripening fruit help hominids develop complex hands?

  12 May 2016

  

   

• Deadbeat ant species branched off as parasite inside its own colony

  21 August 2014

  

   

• Human Evolution Rewritten: We owe our existence to our ancestor’s flexible response to climate change

  3 July 2014

  

   

• Sugar is key ingredient to evolutionary success of ants, researchers find

  31 January 2014

  

   

• Smithsonian scientist confirms missing link in big cat evolution

  8 January 2014

  

   

• Climate change may alter amphibian evolution

  24 October 2012

  

   

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

  18 April 2012

  

   

• Evolution of earliest horses driven by climate change

  27 February 2012

  

   

• Complete evolutionary tree of the Hawaiian honeycreepers traced by Smithsonian scientists, collaborators

  20 October 2011

  

   

• Females can place limits on evolution of attractive features in males, research shows

  5 August 2011

  

   

• New Hall of Human Origins points to environmental change as major force in evolution of hominins

  29 March 2010