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Meet the Entomologist and Wildlife Photographer Zooming in on the Weird and Wonderful World of Ants

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Top Discoveries at the National Museum of Natural History in 2024

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How Leafcutter Ants and Other Culinary Creatures Prepare a Feast

A small, tan fox with large, pointed pink ears blends into its sand-colored enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Five Wild Ways Animals Beat the Summer Heat

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Explore How Chimpanzees Perceive Gender and More Natural History Programs This April

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Meet Seven Species Named After Musicians

Through research on living and preserved fungus-farming ants, entomologists are learning more about the insects’ deep connection to their environment and how that relationship might evolve in response to a changing climate. (Smithsonian)

How Fungus-Farming Ants Fertilize Climate Research

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