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Hungry snakes, giant kangaroos, bat noses, and more
September 2009 | By Abby Callard, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Ashley Luthern and Sarah Zielinski

As photographer Dan Nelken has catalogued, the county fair is the place for family farms to showcase their prized livestock
August 14, 2009 | By Brian Wolly

Continuing a Washington tradition, the Obamas selected artwork from the Smithsonian collections to hang in their historic home
August 04, 2009 | By Abby Callard

Dog faces, the history of laughter, snakes, and bird warning calls
August 2009 | By Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Ashley Luthern and Abigail Tucker

With these various instruments, Galileo Galilei was able to look into space and change our view of the universe.
July 20, 2009 | By Sarah Zielinski

Over the past 150 years, bodybuilders have gone from circus sideshows to celebrities, imparting fitness lessons along the way
July 20, 2009 | By Jesse Rhodes

The fossils found in the Burgess Shale include the 500-million-year-old ancestors of most modern animals
July 16, 2009 | By Smithsonian.com

Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum
July 2009 | By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Laura Helmuth and Abigail Tucker

Flight of the hummingbird, termite cloning and the rise of the octopus
June 2009 | By Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski

Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls
May 2009 | By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Sarah Zielinski

Now that the telescope has received its final upgrades, we look back on Hubble's most memorable images from space
May 06, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Wolves, hibernating animals, spitting cobras and more
April 2009 | By Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski

Mosquitoes, New Zealand flightless birds, pink lizards and more
March 2009 | By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Jesse Rhodes and Abigail Tucker

Honeyeater birds, sea slugs, tree frogs, and more
February 2009 | By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski

Smithsonian's Laura Helmuth vacationed in the Galapagos Islands and returned with even more respect for Charles Darwin
January 30, 2009 | By Laura Helmuth

What words do presidents focus on most in their inaugural addresses? Explore speeches, from Washington to Obama
January 05, 2009 | By Mark Strauss and Brian Wolly

Photographer Neal Slavin discusses his group portraits and his career as a whole
January 02, 2009 | By Smithsonian.com

Butterflies, clicking antelopes, creatures of the deep and more
January 2009 | By Amanda Bensen, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Anika Gupta and Abigail Tucker

Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears
December 2008 | By Amanda Bensen, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Anika Gupta and Sarah Zielinski

Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs
November 2008 | By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Jesse Rhodes, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski

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