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Who Has Opposable Thumbs and a Prehensile Tail? This Tree Rat That Few Have Ever Seen

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

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Meet the Museum Director Who’s Wild About Walruses

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Red or Black, but Nothing in Between: Multicolored Beaks Are a Big Turn Off for Female Jamaican Hummingbirds

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Meet the Scientist Tracing 10,000 Years of Indigenous Life Along Alaska's Southern Coast

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Meet the Scientist Who Discovered a New Genus of Curious Catfish Hiding in Colombia’s Most Endangered River

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Smithsonian Scientists Discover That Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Amazon Helped Yield an Enduring Crop Clone

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This Invasive Species Awareness Week, Learn How Museum Researchers Track the Rogue Wildlife Infiltrating American Ecosystems

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To Understand How Species Evolve, Scientists Flock to Where Charismatic Birds Intermingle

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Fearsome Flies: Meet the Scientist Studying the Top Predators in the Insect World

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Across the Smithsonian, Researchers are Working Together to Save Virginia’s Birds

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Searching for Earth's Oldest Rocks: Follow a Smithsonian Expedition to the Remote Northwest Territories

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Meet the Scientist Venturing to Remote Canada in Search of the Earth’s Oldest Rocks

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Smithsonian Scientists Discover New Species of Hedgehogs Hiding in Plain Sight

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Embark on a Journey to the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Station

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Meet the Scientist Studying the Scary Speed of Spider Jaws

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Meet the Smithsonian Scientist Untangling the Branches of Hawaii’s Evolutionary Tree

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For the Love of Lizards: Meet One of the Smithsonian’s Lizard Experts

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Smithsonian Expedition Yields a New Species of Deep-Sea Coral

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How Lugging a Liquid Nitrogen Tank into the Amazon Helped Spark Ornithology’s Genetic Revolution

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