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How Sleepy Are Sloths and Other Lessons Learned

Smithsonian scientists use radio technology to track animals in an island jungle in the middle of the Panama Canal
February 03, 2010 | By Megan Gambino

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Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells

Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine
January 22, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

The Venus Flytrap's Lethal Allure

Native only to the Carolinas, the carnivorous plant that draws unwitting insects to its spiky maw now faces dangers of its own
February 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

Wild Things:
Life as We Know It

Octopuses, Dinosaurs, Pandas and More...
February 2010 | By Abby Callard, T.A. Frail, Megain Gambino, Abigail Tucker, Sarah Zielinski

Ten Plants That Put Meat on Their Plates

In addition to the well-known Venus flytrap, many other plant species feed on bugs or crustaceans
January 08, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Are Americans Stuck to their Cubicles?

After a debilitating bicycle accident kept her inactive, Mary Collins toured the country studying Americans’ sedentary lifestyle
December 29, 2009 | By Abigail Tucker

Wild Things:
Life as We Know It

Vanishing dinosaurs, breeding birds, redback spiders and more
January 2010 | By Amanda Bensen, Abby Callard, T.A. Frail and Laura Helmuth

The World’s Fastest Animal Takes New York

The peregrine falcon, whose salvation began 40 years ago, commands the skies above the Empire State Building
December 10, 2009 | By Meera Subramanian

The Most Ferocious Man-Eating Lions

Africa's lions may usually prey on zebras or giraffes, but they also attack humans, with some lions responsible for over 50 deaths
December 16, 2009 | By Abigail Tucker

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Smithsonian scientists use radio technology to track animals in an island jungle in the middle of the Panama Canal February 03, 2010 | By Megan Gambino

Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine January 22, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Native only to the Carolinas, the carnivorous plant that draws unwitting insects to its spiky maw now faces dangers of its own February 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

Octopuses, Dinosaurs, Pandas and More... February 2010 | By Abby Callard, T.A. Frail, Megain Gambino, Abigail Tucker, Sarah Zielinski

In addition to the well-known Venus flytrap, many other plant species feed on bugs or crustaceans January 08, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

After a debilitating bicycle accident kept her inactive, Mary Collins toured the country studying Americans’ sedentary lifestyle December 29, 2009 | By Abigail Tucker

Scientist Elisabeth Kalko uses high-tech equipment to track and study the 120 bat species in the region December 28, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

The world's foremost lion expert reveals the brutal, secret world of the king of beasts January 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo January 2010 | By Paul Raffaele

Vanishing dinosaurs, breeding birds, redback spiders and more January 2010 | By Amanda Bensen, Abby Callard, T.A. Frail and Laura Helmuth

The peregrine falcon, whose salvation began 40 years ago, commands the skies above the Empire State Building December 10, 2009 | By Meera Subramanian

Africa's lions may usually prey on zebras or giraffes, but they also attack humans, with some lions responsible for over 50 deaths December 16, 2009 | By Abigail Tucker

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