Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ancient animals
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If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described
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The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection
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