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• Tropical arks reach tipping point

  25 July 2012

  

   

• Prehistoric turtle was size and shape of a big car tire

  11 July 2012

  

   

• Report paints a new picture of early human impact on the Amazon River Basin

  15 June 2012

  

   

• Fungal fidelity: some ants have been eating the same meal for 5 million years!

  30 May 2012

  

   

• Giant prehistoric turtle from Colombia chomped everything in sight–including crocodiles!

  17 May 2012

  

   

• Largest snake the world has ever seen is being brought back to life by Smithsonian Channel

  6 March 2012

  

   

• First fish App from the Smithsonian free on iTunes. “The Smithsonian Guide to the Shore Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific”

  14 February 2012

  

   

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  18 January 2012

  

   

• “Molynocoelia erwini,” a new species of fruit fly from Ecuador

  28 November 2011

  

   

• Smithsonian Anthropologist Bruce Smith talks turkey…squash, potatoes and corn

  15 November 2011

  

   

• Peruvian mummy as seen by a SOMATOM Emotion 6CT scanner

  10 November 2011

  

   

• Quipu, AD 1400 – 1532

  6 November 2011

  

   

• Ancient whales

  28 October 2011

  

   

• Two closely related bee species discovered far apart in Panama and northern Colombia

  20 October 2011

  

   

• What makes rainforests unique? History, not ecology.

  23 September 2011

  

   

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

  15 September 2011