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• Locked and loaded: unique trigger design fires this ant’s snapping jaws

  31 August 2017

  

   

• Latino experience is in focus at African American History and Culture Museum

  23 August 2017

  

   

• Enjoy Face Time with Seven of Earth’s 3-5 Million Mite Species

  4 May 2016

  

   

• Discovery: trap-jaw spiders snap prey with super-spidey speed and power

  7 April 2016

  

   

• In face of mass extinctions, Smithsonian’s Global Genome Initiative quietly saves world’s DNA

  5 April 2016

  

   

• Killer Insect profile: The Assassin Fly

  30 November 2015

  

   

• Bird nests: Variety is Key for the world’s avian Architects

  20 April 2015

  

   

• Eight strange but true spider facts

  28 November 2014

  

   

• What is that?! Five Amazing Microscopic Images

  22 October 2014

  

   

• Primitive, bizarre, beautiful: New mite species reveal a lost world awaiting discovery

  22 May 2014

  

   

• These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills

  30 April 2014

  

   

• New dragon-like mite found in Ohio is gentle, reclusive

  6 March 2014

  

   

• Female “spidernaut” settles into new home at Smithsonian’s Insect Zoo

  29 October 2012

  

   

• Female spiders produce mating plugs to prevent unwanted sex from males

  2 August 2012

  

   

• Weight of genitals reduces physical endurance in male orb web spiders, researchers find

  16 July 2012

  

   

• New image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula

  26 April 2012