Using digitized Botany specimens, AI excels in simple curatorial tasks
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DNA on 100-year-old bat from France may help fight deadly fungus in North America
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Scientists discover common sea nettle jellyfish is actually two distinct species
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What is it like to discover a new dinosaur?
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Mongooses wiped them out. Now Nicole Angeli wants the St. Croix ground lizard home again
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Remarkable new tree species was “hidden in plain sight” in the Andes
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The Unicorns of the Sea: Narwhals
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Study shows parasites may be among earliest victims of climate change
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Locked and loaded: unique trigger design fires this ant’s snapping jaws
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Study dates corn as staple crop in Central America beginning 4,300 years ago
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The beautiful and bizarre treehopper
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Indestructible jaws from ancient, extinct porcupine fish reveal new species
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A first: New website reveals origin of genetic samples and date collected
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Laser beams unveil secrets locked inside primitive stone spear points
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Is This the Long-Sought Answer to the Question of Tropical Biodiversity?
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Study shows ancient California Indians risked toxins from bitumen-coated bottles
![Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian research anthropologist and curator of physical anthropology, with a reference skeleton and a femur from an individual who suffered from rickets. [Terry Collection P000826-0]](https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nmnh_170301_0126_Sholts-by-Paul-Fetters-for-Smithsonian-Institution-630x350.png)
